Sperber and Narvaez on Human Rationality

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. Sperber was trained in anthropology at the Sorbonne and the University of Oxford. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics where he works on an approach to cultural evolution known as the "epidemiology of representations". perber currently holds the positions of Directeur de Recherche émérite at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of the International Cognition and Culture Institute.

Darcia Narvaez is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Collaborative for Ethical Education at the University of Notre Dame. Her research explores questions of moral cognition, moral development and moral character education. She has developed several integrative theories: Adaptive Ethical Expertise, Integrative Ethical Education, Triune Ethics Theory.

Bellow Sperber and Narvaez talk human cognition, animal intelligence and argumentative reason.

h/t DMF