The Yale University Workshop on Mutual Understanding will explore the notion of understanding others. Participants will consider various domains of mutual understanding, such as action and speech at both the individual and collective levels. Moreover, they will take into account diverse forms and tools of mutual understanding, such as mind reading, imaginative empathy, and the capacity to adopt someone else’s perspective.

The workshop aims at fostering the dialogue between, on the one hand, the conceptual inquiries into mutual understanding—notably in philosophy—and, on the other hand, the empirical evidence and the practical applications of such inquiries in psychology and cognitive science.

The workshop will enjoy the participation of tele-attendants from Cambridge, Harvard, Washington University in St-Louis, Institut Jean-Nicod, and more, with expertise in a variety of disciplines.

Speakers

John Bengson (UW-Madison)

Paul Bloom (Yale)

Herman Cappelen (Oslo & St Andrews)

Molly Crockett (Yale)

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell)

Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury)

Tania Lombrozo (Princeton)

Shaun Nichols (Arizona)

Michael Patrick Lynch (UConn)

David Pizarro (Cornell)

Michael Strevens (NYU)

Organization

Herman Cappelen, L. A. Paul, & Alain Pe-Curto