Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. Space is limited – to sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Nadia Brashier Department of Psychology UCSD Fact-Checking Fake News Amid intense public scrutiny, social media companies have hired, and then fired, professional fact-checkers. Is it beneficial to flag […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
Alon Hafri Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science University of Delaware How the Mind Represents Relations: Shared Constraints Across Vision and Language Language and vision, two core components of human cognition, are often studied independently. Yet growing evidence suggests that both systems encode the world in terms of sophisticated relations and their associated […]
Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. Space is limited – to sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Adam Green Department of Psychology Georgetown University Title and abstract forthcoming Pizza will be served. Please bring your own beverage. We will also stream this seminar via […]
Ege Yumuşak Department of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania Curiosity and its Contents (or, “Whence Interrogative Contents”) Inquiry often begins with a question—one whose answer we’re curious to find out. We might wonder What is the relation between unemployment rates and wages? or How does one make sourdough bread?. We inquire in order to answer, and […]
Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Francis Shen Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics The Past, Present, and Future of Neurolaw For over a century brain science has fascinated the law. This talk will explore the past, present, […]