CfP: recent trends in social primatology and human ethology

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2nd CFP: From grooming to speaking: recent trends in social primatology and human ethology

Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal | September 10-12th, 2012.

Conference website

http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/linhas_investigacao/Philosophy%20of%20Life%20Sciences/int_col/index.htm

Plenary talks

Johan Bolhuis, Constança Carvalho & Luis Vicente, Augusta Gaspar, Nathalie Gontier, Mary Lee Jensvold, Simone Pika, Tim Racine, Jeroen Stevens, Jordan Zlatev.

Abstracts of the talks are now available online.

CFP: deadline June 30th

We call for primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, sociobiologists, evolutionary, cognitive and comparative psychologists, biolinguists, evolutionary linguists, bio-ethicists, philosophers and historians of science, to provide talks on:

1. Historical reviews on the introduction and use of primate studies to acquire knowledge on the origin and evolution of communication and language

2. Methodologies of primate communication and language research

3. Theories on primate communication and the evolution of language

4. Ethical issues in social primatology and human ethology

Abstracts can be send to Ricardo Santos: rssantos@fc.ul.pt.

The author of the best abstract will be awarded a Springer Book Voucher for the worth of 180 euro. And a selection of talks will be published in an anthology for the Springer Book Series “Interdisciplinary Evolution Research”.

Scientific committee

Rod Bennison, Rudie Botha, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Daniel Dor, Luc Faucher, Nathalie Gontier (chair), David Leavens, Robert Lickliter, Jorge M.L. Marques da Silva, Mark Nelissen, Eugenia Ramirez Goicoechea, Emanuele Serrelli, Chris Sinha, James Steele, Ian Tattersall, Natalie Uomini, Arie Verhagen, Luis Vicente.

Prof dr Nathalie Gontier
Philosopher of evolutionary sciences

http://vub.academia.edu/NathalieGontier

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