Dan Sperber#
| Membership Number: | 1513 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.dan.sperber.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010- Professor, Department of Philosophy and Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest
- 2008- Directeur Emeritus at at the CNRS, Paris; Institut Jean Nicod, EHESS et ENS
- 2001-2008 Research Director at the CNRS, Paris; Institut Jean Nicod, EHESS et ENS
- 1988-2001 Research Director at the CNRS, Paris; Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, École Polytechnique
- 1983-1988 Research Director at the CNRS, Paris; Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative de l'Université de Paris X
- 1971-1983 Research Fellow at the CNRS, Paris; Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative de l'Université de Paris X
- 1968-1971 Research Associate at the CNRS, Paris; Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative de l'Université de Paris X
- 1965-1968 Research Associate at the CNRS, Paris; Laboratoire d'Études Africaines
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of the cognitive and of the social sciences
- Evolutionary psychology
- Psychology of reasoning
- Cognitive anthropology
- Cultural evolution
- Linguistic pragmatics
Honours and Awards
- Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1991
- Silver Medal, CNRS, 2002
- Yrjö Reenpää Medal, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Helsinki, 2007
- Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize 2009 (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris)
- Mind and Brain Prize 2009 (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Chandaria Prize 2011 (Institute of Philosophy, University of London)
- Corresponding fellow of the British Academy
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
- Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
