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Course date
June 27–July 2, 2016
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

It has long been recognized that the human capacity for meta representation is at the basis for our proclivity to cooperate and communicate. However, the relationship between metarepresentation and communication has recently taken center stage in some of the discussions at the heart of cognitive science, philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics. Research in areas as diverse as language evolution, theory of mind, and reasoning have been profoundly influenced by a new look at the role metarepresentations play in communicative interaction. This summer school brings together some of the key figures in these debates from a variety of disciplines in order to illuminate this relationship further and offer students and researchers a forum to discuss ideas at the cutting edge of this field.
 
The main aim of the course is 1) to initiate reconsideration of the concept of ‘metarepresentation’ in light of recent anthropological, cognitive science, psychological, and philosophical research, and consequently 2) to stimulate discussions of potential functional explanations for the everyday availability of meta representational capacities.
 
The course will be taught by internationally renowned experts in the field while stressing highly interactive forms of teaching. The course is planned to start with introductory lectures to initiate reconsideration of terms and build common ground between the researchers from different disciplines. After this phase, modules will be held in a seminar format, with faculty members leading the seminar, and responses/commentaries delivered by students. Additionally, there will be opportunities for students to give poster presentations.
 
The summer course is aimed at providing state-of-the-art scientific and research-oriented training for post-doctoral young researchers and highly promising pre-doctoral and MA students from European and overseas universities and research institutes on the role of communication in the emergence of meta-representational capacities. 
 

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