Macnamara-Bregman Lecture
2023-24Ìý ÌýPaul Bloom, University of Toronto, "Perverse Actions"
2021-22Ìý ÌýCindy Blackstock, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ,Ìý"Reconciliation: Is It What You Thought?"
Macnamara Lecture
2020-21Ìý ÌýSusan Gelman, University of Michigan, "The Essential Child: What Children Can Teach Us About the Human Mind"
2019-20Ìý Ìý(cancelled)
2018-19 Ìý Mark Sabbagh, Queen's University, "Preschoolers' changing minds"
2017-18ÌýÌý Susan Pinker, Journalist & Psychologist, "The Village Effect: Why Face to Face Contact Matters"
2016-17 Ìý Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia, "Are there Critical Periods in Speech Perception Development?"
2015-16Ìý ÌýMichael Corballis, University of Auckland, "The wandering mind: Mental time travel, theory of mind, and language."
2014-15 Ìý Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Globalization: Good or Bad for Human Rights?"
2013-14 Ìý Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Magazine, "The anxieties of achievement and the ambiguities of accomplishment."
2012-13ÌýÌý Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University, "Word and Things: LinkingÌýInfants' Early Conceptual and Linguistic Capacities."
2010-11Ìý ÌýJames MacDougall, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ , "From Aristotle to the Arctic: Adventures in Deafness andÌýDisability."
2010-11ÌýÌý Renee Baillargeon, Univeristy of Illinois, "Making sense of Others' Actions:ÌýPsychological Reasoning in Infancy."
2009-10ÌýÌý Margaret Lock, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, "Eclipse of the gene and the return of divination."
2008-09ÌýÌý Rebecca Goldstein, Harvard University, "Spinoza’s Mind."
2006-08Ìý ÌýAlison Gopnik, UC Berkeley, "Babies and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory formation in children."
2005-06ÌýÌý Balfour Mount, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, "On living and dying", with film by Gary Beitel, "The man who learned to fall."
2004-05 Ìý Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University, "Language and core knowledge."
2004-05 Ìý Karen Wynn, Yale University, "Early Mechanisms of Cognition: Objects and number."
2003-04ÌýÌý Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History, "What Drives Evolution?"
2002-03ÌýÌý Paul Bloom, Yale University, "How children learn the meanings of words."
2000-01ÌýÌý Susan Carey, New York University, "The origin of concepts: evolution versus culture."
1998-99 Ìý Richard Kearney, University College, Dublin, "The ethics of remembrance: Hamlet, Dora, Schindler."
1998-99 Ìý Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Words and Rules."
1997-98ÌýÌý Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University, "The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations."
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