Cognition

Remarques anthropologiques sur le relativisme moral. (In Jean-Pierre Changeux (ed.), Fondements naturels de l'éthique, Paris: Odile Jacob. (1993) 319-334. - no English version)

Understanding verbal understanding. (In Jean Khalfa (ed.) What is Intelligence?Cambridge University Press (1994), 179-198.)

Sperber, Dan, Francesco Cara, & Vittorio Girotto (1995). Relevance Theory explains the Selection Task. Cognition 57, 31-95.

(with Deirdre Wilson) Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla) (In Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19:3 (1996). 530-532.)

Author's presentation of Explaining Culture (Unpublished - Written for a web list at the time, 1996).

Individualisme méthodologique et cognitivisme. (Dans: R. Boudon, F. Chazel & A. Bouvier (eds.) Cognition et sciences sociales. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France. (1997) 123-136.)

Methodological individualism and cognitivism in the social sciences (Unpublished English version of the above)

Intuitive and reflective beliefs. In Mind and Language 12 (1) (1997). 67-83.

(with Deirdre Wilson) The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon (In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher (eds) Thought and language. CUP, Cambridge, 1998, 184-200).

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) Evolution, Cognition and Culture. In Robert Wilson & Frank Keil (eds) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999, pp.cxi-cxxxii)

Naturaliser l'esprit (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 1, pp. 11-24)

Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective (in Dan Sperber ed. Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.117-137).

(With Gloria Origgi) Evolution, communication, and the proper function of language (A discussion of Millikan in the light of pragmatics and of the psychology of mindreading, in Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain eds., Evolution and the Human Mind: Language, Modularity and Social Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 140-169)

In Defense of massive modularity (in Dupoux, E.  Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler. 2002, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press. 47-57)

(With Vittorio Girotto, Markus Kemmelmeir and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. (Cognition 2001, 81, B69-B76) (in PDF format)

An Evolutionary perspective on testimony and argumentation. Philosophical Topics. (2001). 29. 401-413 Version française. Le témoignage et l’argumentation dans une perspective évolutionniste. A paraître dans Raisons Pratiques

L'individuel sous influence du collectif (Le titre n'est pas de moi - l'article porte  sur cognition, mémoire et culture - il remplace un texte précédent intitulé "cognition, mémoire et culture") (La Recherche, 344, juillet-août 2001, pp. 32-35)

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Guy Politzer) When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems. (Thinking & Reasoning , 2002, 8 (1) 1-20)

The future of writing (contribution to the virtual symposium text-e, 2002)
- L'avenir de l'écriture (contribution au colloque virtuel text-e, 2002 - version française de The future of writing). Published in Text-e: Le texte à l'heure de l'Internet (Gloria Origgi & Noga Arikha eds.) Paris: Bibliothèque Publique d'Information. 177-190
- Il futuro della scrittura (contributo al convegno virtuale text-e, 2002 - Traduzione di The future of writing )

(With Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading. ( Mind and Language, 2002, 17. 3-23)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Truthfulness and relevance Mind. (2002). 111. 583-632.

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Laure Carles) Truthfulness and relevance in telling the time (Mind and Language, vol 17, No 5, November 2002, pp 457-466.)

(With Vittorio Girotto) Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby. Cognition (2002) 85 (3), 277-290

Why rethink interdisciplinarity? (2003) Text discussed in the virtual seminar "Rethinking interdisciplinarity" on www.interdisciplines.org (where the whole discussion is available)
- Pourquoi repenser l'interdisciplinarité? Version française du précédent. Texte discuté dans le cadre du séminaire virtuel "Repenser l'interdisciplinarité" à  www.interdisciplines.org (où l'intégralité de la discussion est en ligne) 

(With Vittorio Girotto) Does the Selection task detect cheater detection?  In Fitness, J. & Sterelny, K. (Eds.), 2003 From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology, Monographs in Cognitive Science, Psychology Press. (PDF file) 

(With Deirdre Wilson) Relevance Theory. In Horn, L.R. & Ward, G. (eds.) (2004) The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632. 

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. (2004) 8 (1) 40-46. 

(With Ira Noveck) Introduction. (2004) in Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance . (2004) in Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

(2005) Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive?  To appear in The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, & Stephen Stich .

(2006) Why a deep understanding of cultural evolution is incompatible with shallow psychology. (in Nick Enfield and Stephen Levinson (eds.) Roots of Human Sociality, 431-449

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) Culture and modularity. (To appear in The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition, Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich eds). 

Luca Surian, Stefania Caldi and Dan Sperber (in press) Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants To appear in Psychological Science

Ira Noveck & Dan Sperber (In press) The why and how of experimental pragmatics: The case of ‘scalar inferences’. To appear in Noel Burton-Roberts (ed) Advances in Pragmatics. Palgrave