Join Cool Science for Science on Tap every 2nd Monday of the month at Jack Quinn’s in downtown Colorado Springs. Presenters begin at 6:30 pm with food and drink available beginning at 6:00 pm. A wide variety of fascinating topics are presented by local scientists for informal discussion, and the relaxed atmosphere encourages anyone and everyone to come explore the latest ideas in science and technology. From practical to theoretical, the presentations and group interactions provide a fun and interesting way to gain an understanding of the world around us.
Next On Tap: April 9, 2018
Title: Neuroscience and Cognition
The evolutionary emergence of human cognition has focused largely on comparing early hominin psychology to chimp psychology, on hominin tool technologies (especially stone tool technologies), their control of fire, and on the appearance of spoken language. In this presentation, I’ll focus on the role that joint attention between hominins played in the emergence of distinctly human forms of cognition. I am especially interested in the joint attention characteristic of teaching-learning episodes, such as teaching a novice how to produce stone tools. I argue that the joint attention found in transmitting tutor’s expertise to novice helped to cement a reliably cognitive psychology in the middle Paleolithic hominins Heidelbergensis and H. Neanderthalis, which laid the foundation for its explosive development in H. sapiens.
Bio of SoT Speaker Dr. Rex Welshon
Rex Welshon B.A, Colorado State University, Ph.D, Philosophy, Brown University. His areas of specialization are philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. He is a past Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at Brown. His publications include This Uncanny Animal: Nietzsche's Metapsychology(Macmillan 2014); Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness Acumen (2011); Nietzsche's Philosophy (Acumen 2004); Nietzsche's Perspectivism (Illinois 2000), and numerous articles on philosophy of mind, event ontology, philosophy of language, and Nietzsche's philosophy. His current work focuses on the role of joint attention in the evolutionary development of human cognition during the middle Paleolithic period. He was Associate Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences from 2001-2016.
The evolutionary emergence of human cognition has focused largely on comparing early hominin psychology to chimp psychology, on hominin tool technologies (especially stone tool technologies), their control of fire, and on the appearance of spoken language. In this presentation, I’ll focus on the role that joint attention between hominins played in the emergence of distinctly human forms of cognition. I am especially interested in the joint attention characteristic of teaching-learning episodes, such as teaching a novice how to produce stone tools. I argue that the joint attention found in transmitting tutor’s expertise to novice helped to cement a reliably cognitive psychology in the middle Paleolithic hominins Heidelbergensis and H. Neanderthalis, which laid the foundation for its explosive development in H. sapiens.
Bio of SoT Speaker Dr. Rex Welshon
Rex Welshon B.A, Colorado State University, Ph.D, Philosophy, Brown University. His areas of specialization are philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. He is a past Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at Brown. His publications include This Uncanny Animal: Nietzsche's Metapsychology(Macmillan 2014); Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness Acumen (2011); Nietzsche's Philosophy (Acumen 2004); Nietzsche's Perspectivism (Illinois 2000), and numerous articles on philosophy of mind, event ontology, philosophy of language, and Nietzsche's philosophy. His current work focuses on the role of joint attention in the evolutionary development of human cognition during the middle Paleolithic period. He was Associate Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences from 2001-2016.
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