Project Members

Radu Bogdan, Director
Philosophy & Psychology
mental development
theory of mind
language acquisition
origins of mind &
consciousness

Mark Ashton Smith
Psychology
cognitive development
theory of mind
consciousness
normativity
affective priming

Bill Wringe
Philosophy
theory of mind
simulation
empathy

Simon Wigley
Philosophy
moral psychology
attribution of
responsibility
stereotyping

Emre Özgen
Psychology
colour vision
impact of language & culture
on perception

Oliver Wright
Psychology
colour vision
cultural influences on colour vision

developmental psychology

Associate
Members

Istvan Aranyosi
Philosophy
physicalism
mental causation
phenomenal concepts

Sandy Berkovski
Philosophy
philosophy of language
the context principle
metaphor

Josh Cowley
Philosophy
concepts
inferential role semantics
reasoning
theory of mind

Hilmi Demir
Philosophy
foundations of cognitive science
human information
processing
psychology as a scientific discipline

David Davenport
Computer Engineering
artificial intelligence
cognitive architectures
knowledge representation

Fergus Bolger
Psychology
social, developmental and economic psychology
psycholinguistics
judgment and decision making

 
Center for Mind, Language & Culture
Bilkent University
 

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 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 below).

 
Events, 2008      


Taking the Measure of Mirror Neurons


An international colloquium at Bilkent University, Friday, April 18, 2008, from 9.30 to 19.30, C-block amphitheater, 3rd floor, in FEASS Building.
In collaboration with the Psychology Department, Bilkent University.

With the participation of:

Pierre Jacob (Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
Thomas Metzinger (Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
Guenther Knoblich (Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)
Natalie Sebanz (Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)


and

Radu Bogdan (Philosophy & Psychology, Bilkent University, Turkey)
Mark Ashton Smith (Psychology, Bilkent University, Turkey)

for program details click here

 
Bilkent University    Department of Philosophy    Department of Psychology  

Center for Mind, Language and Culture (CMLC), Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06800, Ankara, Turkey
Telephone:+90.312.290 2949   e-mail: mind@bilkent.edu.tr