Past News and Events
- David Laibson (FAS, Economics) and Camillo Padoa-Schioppa (HMS, Neurobiology)
Does economics need neuroscience?
- Margaret Livingstone (HMS, Neurobiology) and Ken Nakayama (FAS, Psychology)
Vision and aesthetics
- Peter Godfrey-Smith (FAS, Philosophy) and David Haig (FAS, OEB)
Is the theory of evolution complete?
- Cedric Boeckx (FAS, Linguistics) and Stuart Shieber (FAS, Computer Science)
Is language a perfect computational system?
- Susan Carey (FAS, Psychology) and Gennaro Chierchia (FAS, Linguistics)
Can language change thought?
- Joshua Greene (FAS, Psychology) and Martin Nowak (FAS, Mathematics/OEB)
Cooperation and morality
September 17, 2006
MBB Junior Symposium
"Minds and Machines"
- Alex Byrne, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
A Lesson From the Chinese Room
- Rodney Brooks, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Robots and People: Who has "Real" Emotions?
- Larry Young, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory Univeristy
The Neurobiology of Social Bonding
- Prof. Martha McClintock, The University of Chicago
Subjects included sexuality and fertility (the psychosocial control of hormones), human pheromones and body scents (levels of conciousness), and social isolation, aging and mortality (race disparities in Breast Cancer).
