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October 9

Cognitive Approaches to Religion
Religious Studies 202
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2002


ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY: Sperber, "Anthropology and Psychology:  Towards an Epidemiology of Representations", Man 20 (1985) pp. 73-89 website
and
Sperber, "The Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of Representations" in Hirschfeld and Gelman, eds., Mapping the Mind, pp. 39-67 (1994) Bulkpack

 
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Useful links: 
Frame Problem
Modularity of Mind
Modularity of Language
Domain Specificity
in MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences