Metarepresentation, communication and culture was a one and a half day workshop organized by Dan Sperber and collaborators. The workshop explored to what extent the abilities to attribute mental states to others and form representations of representations underlie the formation of human culture.
More information about the programme, speakers as well as downloadable abstracts can be found here.
Downloadable talks in mp3 format (still more to come):
Olivier Mascaro - 'Metarepresentation and children’s understanding of deception’
Fabrice Clément - 'What is the minimal cognitive equipment for real trust? The 3-year-old’s problem’
Nicolas Baumard - 'What is intuitive in intuitive theories?'
Dan Sperber - ‘Demonstrations’