Webinars

‘True Self’ Journal Club

Do people, across culture, attribute to themselves not just a self but a true self that makes them who they really are? This is what Nina Strohminger, George Newman, and Joshua Knobe argue in a forthcoming article and what we discuss in this 'Journal Club" webinar.

‘The Shape of Thought’ Book Club

Clark Barrett, evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist, professor in the department of Anthropology at UCLA, published in 2015 a book, The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve, which is both an introduction to evolutionary psychology and a major contribution to its development.

‘The Origins of Monsters’ Book Club

In January 2016, our website has hosted a Book Club devoted to David Wengrow’s book, 'The Origins of Monsters', and organised by Olivier Morin. The pictures illustrating the posts all come from the "Discarding Images" website.

Speaking Our Minds Book Club

From mid-June to mid-July 2015, the ICCI website has hosted a Book Club devoted to Thom Scott-Phillips’ book, Speaking Our Mind. The book has received positive reviews in various media, including the Times Literary Supplement (read Richard Moore's review here), and has been called "an amazing job" (Stuart West),“the most important and best book ever written on the evolution of language” (Dan Sperber).