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Macnamara-Bregman Lecture Archive


Macnamara-Bregman Lecture

2023-24听 听Paul Bloom, University of Toronto, "Perverse Actions"

2021-22听 听Cindy Blackstock, 海角社区,听"Reconciliation: Is It What You Thought?"

Macnamara Lecture

2020-21听 听Susan Gelman, University of Michigan, "The Essential Child: What Children Can Teach Us About the Human Mind"

2019-20听 听(cancelled)

2018-19 听 Mark Sabbagh, Queen's University, "Preschoolers' changing minds"

2017-18听听 Susan Pinker, Journalist & Psychologist, "The Village Effect: Why Face to Face Contact Matters"

2016-17 听 Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia, "Are there Critical Periods in Speech Perception Development?"

2015-16听 听Michael Corballis, University of Auckland, "The wandering mind: Mental time travel, theory of mind, and language."

2014-15 听 Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Globalization: Good or Bad for Human Rights?"

2013-14 听 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Magazine, "The anxieties of achievement and the ambiguities of accomplishment."

2012-13听听 Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University, "Word and Things: Linking听Infants' Early Conceptual and Linguistic Capacities."

2010-11听 听James MacDougall, 海角社区 , "From Aristotle to the Arctic: Adventures in Deafness and听Disability."

2010-11听听 Renee Baillargeon, Univeristy of Illinois, "Making sense of Others' Actions:听Psychological Reasoning in Infancy."

2009-10听听 Margaret Lock, 海角社区, "Eclipse of the gene and the return of divination."

2008-09听听 Rebecca Goldstein, Harvard University, "Spinoza鈥檚 Mind."

2006-08听 听Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley, "Babies and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory formation in children."

2005-06听听 Balfour Mount, 海角社区, "On living and dying", with film by Gary Beitel, "The man who learned to fall."

2004-05 听 Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University, "Language and core knowledge."

2004-05 听 Karen Wynn, Yale University, "Early Mechanisms of Cognition: Objects and number."

2003-04听听 Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History, "What Drives Evolution?"

2002-03听听 Paul Bloom, Yale University, "How children learn the meanings of words."

2000-01听听 Susan Carey, New York University, "The origin of concepts: evolution versus culture."

1998-99 听 Richard Kearney, University College, Dublin, "The ethics of remembrance: Hamlet, Dora, Schindler."

1998-99 听 Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Words and Rules."

1997-98听听 Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University, "The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations."

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