Conférence donnée par Dan Sperber dans le cadre du colloque "Minds in Common", organisé à l'ENS par Mattia Gallotti (Jean Nicod Institute) et John Michael (Copenhagen University and University of Aarhus).
Much recent work (for instance by Michael Tomasello and his collaborators in developmental psychology) has shown the relevance of 'common ground' to explaining various forms of coordination, collaboration, or cooperation. Formal and informal notions of common ground (or ‘mutual knowledge,’ or ‘common knowledge,’…) developed in philosophy and in game theory, whatever their merits, are of limited use in empirical research, where they are mentioned rather than used in order to evoke rather than to analyse the phenomenon. Drawing on the notion of ‘mutual manifestness’ put forward in Sperber & Wilson’s Relevance: Communication and Cognition (1986 – 2nd edition 1995) and on the epidemiological perspective on culture defended in Explaining culture (1996), I outline a cognitive and ecological approach to common ground aiming at empirical import.
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Dan Sperber est un anthropologue, linguiste et chercheur en sciences cognitives français. Il est actuellement directeur de recherche émérite à l'institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS et Professeur aux départements de Sciences Cognitives et de Philosophie de la Central European University à Budapest.
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