Our “What is Cognitive Science?” event series focuses on:
- Core philosophical questions: Consciousness, cognition, belief, assertion, knowledge, time, modality, counterfactuals
- Language and meaning: Linguistics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, reference, generics, language evolution
- Perception and attention: Visual perception, attention, perception–belief interactions, event representation
- Cognition and development: Infant learning, memory, imagination, social learning, reasoning
- Decision‑making and social cognition: Moral judgment, prejudice, goals, emotions, theory of mind
- Computation and modeling: Computational models of mind, AI‑related reasoning, formal and axiomatic approaches
- Interdisciplinary applications: Cognitive science in economics, biology, neuroscience, archaeology, education, and music
Universities Represented
- Rutgers University
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- University of Pennsylvania
- New York University
- Harvard University
- University of Southern California
- University of Michigan
- University of Oslo
- University College London
- Northwestern University
- Concordia University
- University of Melbourne
- Kansas State University
- University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign
- University of Louisville
- Hofstra University
- Seton Hall University
- Fordham University
Research Institutes & Centers
- Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology)
- Imaging, Modeling, and Computational Biomedicine Centers
- Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Research Centers
Academic Departments Within Rutgers
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Linguistics
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Anthropology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
- Education
- Biomedical Engineering
And more international organizations spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia