JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard professor and best-selling author Steven Pinker, whose best-selling book The Language Instinct has just been translated into Hebrew for the first time by Shalem Press, is headlining the Shalem Center’s Psycho-Ontology Conference from December 11-15, 2011, in Jerusalem, Israel. Hundreds attended his public lecture last night in Jerusalem, and hundreds more are scheduled to attend his lecture in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Psycho-Ontology conference co-chair, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center Jesse Prinz, said "The presence of a world class interdisciplinary philosophy conference in Jerusalem is significant. An important array of scholars will be meeting to exchange ideas, build bridges and discuss the role that we, as human beings, play in creating the categories that make up our world. We'll be asking whether the "human nature" tradition in philosophy been rendered obsolete by contemporary cognitive science. Scholars will be addressing the possible connections between the operations of the human mind and the fundamental structure of existence."
Distinguished participating philosophers, psychologists, and linguists include Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University), David Chalmers (Australian National University and New York University) Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University), Yoram Hazony (the Shalem Center) Steven Horst (Wesleyan University), Steven Pinker (Harvard University), Susanna Siegel (Harvard University), and Amie L. Thomasson (University of Miami).
For more information about the conference, please visit www.psychoontology.org
To learn more about Shalem Press please visit
http://www.shalem.org.il/Book-description/Shalem-Press-Overview.html
Click here to register for the public lectures: http://www.shalemevents.org/pinker/
For further information please contact Meirav Jones at meiravj@shalem.org.il
The Shalem Center (www.shalemcenter.com) is a Jerusalem-based institute that engages in research, publishing, and education in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history and thought, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, and strategic studies. Shalem has submitted an application to the Israel Council for Higher Education to open Israel's first liberal arts college, which will offer the first Israeli B.A. modeled on the American liberal arts degree. The college is expected to open in the Fall of 2012.