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The Center for Mind, Language and Culture (CMLC) was established in January 2008 as an interdisciplinary platform for collaborative research and public forms of communication (symposia, lectures, conferences, seminars) that explore the evolution, development and design of mental capacities involved in the assimilation and transmission of culture. The human mind is designed for and by culture -- where culture is understood as a set of social practices, forms of interaction and communication, habits, norms, rules, conventions, and institutions transmitted nongenetically yet universally from generation to generation. The Center has a core group of “project members” whose work is directly involved with mind-culture topics, and “associate members” who work in areas -- such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, reasoning -- that overlap with such topics. The first major initiative of the CMLC is the forthcoming colloquium on mirror neurons, which will take place on Friday, April 18th, 2008, with a prestigious international participation (see Activities). |
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