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The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
The Department of Philosophy
The Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Consciousness
The Grammar
of Happiness
Symposium on Dan Everett's New Book
Language: The Cultural Tool
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 I Gilman Building, Room 133
13:15-13:30 Greetings
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
Eyal Zisser, Dean, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Eli Friedlander, Chairman, Department of Philosophy
16:00-18:00 Between Amazônia and Massachusetts
16:00-16:40 Eat. Drink. Man. Woman.
How much syntax do we need?
Dan Everett, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University
13:30-15:40 Perspectives
Chair: Yaron Senderowicz, Department of Philosophy
13:40-14:20 Abstraction: A view from the Amazon
Tamar Sovran, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies
14:20-15:00 Recursive embedding in mouse free exploration?
Ilan Golani, Department of Zoology
15:00-15:40 The culture of language: The art of living and pragmatics
Marcelo Dascal, Department of Philosophy
17:00-18:00 The Grammar of Happiness
Screening of a documentary film with Dan Everett