Past News and Events
November 25, 2008
MBB Undergraduate Colloquium on Knowledge and Reality
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 4pm to 6pmThis colloquium is designed to give a flavor of the issues and perspectives researchers and students address within the Harvard MBB community, and to give students interested in MBB the opportunity to meet each other. Seniors and juniors who have joined an MBB track or the MBB secondary field, sophomores and first-years who are considering these options, and any students interested in mind/brain/behavior and the colloquium topics are all welcome at this event.
Click the title of the event, above, for more information!
October 14, 2008
MBB Conversations Event
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., 4pm to 6pmInterested in MBB and finding out what kinds of questions our faculty are working on? This series of conversations was moderated by Marc Hauser, MBB Co-Director and Professor of Psychology, FAS.
Speakers and topics included:
- Aesthetics
Margaret Livingstone (HMS) & Steven Pinker (Psychology, FAS) - Ethics
Joshua Greene (Psychology, FAS) & Frances Kamm (Philosophy, FAS/KSG) - Mental Representation
Bernhard Nickel (Philosophy, FAS) & Jesse Snedeker (Psychology, FAS) - Darwin
Janet Browne (History of Science, FAS) & David Haig (OEB, FAS)
October 2, 2008
The State of Cognitive Neuroscience: Accomplishments and Prospects
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., 4pm to 6pmHow have advances in the brain sciences informed the mind sciences, and how well has cognitive neuroscience fared and where is it going? Moderated by Marc Hauser. Speakers included Alfonoso Caramazza, Stephen Kosslyn, and Daniel Schacter.
April 15-17, 2008
Perspectives: Looking Back and Looking Forward
with Nobel Laureate, Daniel Kahneman
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave, 5pm to 7pmThis event consisted of three nights of conversations, spanning the career of Dr. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize Winner of Economics; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Click here to watch Judgment and Intuition - Part 1.
- Click here to watch Judgment and Intuition - Part 2.
- Click here to watch Judgment and Intuition - Part 3.
- Click here to watch Judgment and Intuition - Part 4.
- Click here to watch Decision making and rationality - Part 1.
- Click here to watch Decision making and rationality - Part 2.
- Click here to watch Decision making and rationality - Part 3.
- Click here to watch Decision making and rationality - Part 4.
- Click here to watch Evolving notions of well-being - Part 1.
- Click here to watch Evolving notions of well-being - Part 2.
- Click here to watch Evolving notions of well-being - Part 3.
- Click here to watch Evolving notions of well-being - Part 4.
March 17, 2008
On Language and Human Thought: A Conversation with Paul Pietroski and Critical Friends
Harvard Hall, Room 104, 4pm to 5:30pm
This conversation highlighted some of Professor Pietroski’s most recent work and its implications for the fields of mind, brain, and behavior. AlIt also featured Jesse Snedeker, Andrew Nevins, and Bernhard Nickel. Together they talked about new challenges and issues being explored and pursued by those interested in points of convergence among linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and biology. Marc Hauser, co-director of MBB, moderated.