Podcast appearances and mentions of pascal boyer

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Pascal Boyer | Psychology & Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis"What Kinds of Religion are "Natural"?"McCauley emphasized that religious representations are “natural”, in contrast to other cultural systems that require systematic training or leaning and institutional scaffolding. Pursuing this line of reasoning, we can see how some limited domains of religion are far more natural than others, in McCauley's sense of that term. This could lead to a re-evaluation of some common tenets of the cognitive science of religion, propositions that we assume to apply to all forms of religious representations.

durée : 02:00:26 - Les Matins - par : Guillaume Erner - .

Dans le 78e épisode du podcast Le bulleur, on vous présente la bande dessinée Blanc Et l'homme créa les dieux que l'on doit à Joseph Béhé qui adapte l'essai de l'anthropologue Pascal Boyer, l'album est édité chez Futuropolis. Cette semaine aussi, on revient sur l’actualité de la bande dessinée et des sorties avec : - La disparition de Jean Graton à l'âge de 97 ans - La sortie du deuxième tome de Thérapie de groupe intitulé Ce qui se conçoit bien que l'on doit à Manu Larcenet et aux éditions Dargaud - La sortie de Le labo, un one shot que l'on doit à Hervé Bouhris pour le scénario et Lucas Varela pour le dessin et c'est édité chez Dargaud - La sortie de l'album Sur un air de Fado, un one shot que l'on doit à Nicolas Barral et aux éditions Dargaud - La sortie de Chroniques de jeunesse que l'on doit à Guy Delisle et aux éditions Delcourt dans la collection Shampoing - La sortie de Vendredi noir, cinquième tome de la série Zombillénium que l'on doit à Arthur De Pins et aux éditions Dupuis - La sortie du premier tome d'Adventurman baptisé La fin et tout ce qui s'ensuit que l'on doit au scénario de Matt Fraction et au dessin de Terry Dodson et c'est édité chez Glénat

durée : 00:04:13 - Bulles de BD - par : Laetitia Gayet - Tiré de l'essai de Pascal Boyer paru en 2001, "Et l'homme créa les dieux" est plus qu'une bande-dessinée. C'est une explication de texte, un cours magistral sur l'homme et son rapport à la religion. 361 pages pour comprendre, pour apprendre et se poser des questions.

durée : 00:04:13 - Bulles de BD - par : Laetitia Gayet - Tiré de l'essai de Pascal Boyer paru en 2001, "Et l'homme créa les dieux" est plus qu'une bande-dessinée. C'est une explication de texte, un cours magistral sur l'homme et son rapport à la religion. 361 pages pour comprendre, pour apprendre et se poser des questions.

durée : 00:22:24 - Le Réveil culturel - par : Tewfik Hakem - Pourquoi existe-t-il des religions, pourquoi les gens sont-ils croyants, tolérants, fanatiques ? Qu'en est-il des croyances ? L'adaptation en bande dessinée d'un essai de l'anthropologue Pascal Boyer par le dessinateur Joseph Béhé, autour de la grande question de la religion - réalisation : Vincent Abouchar - invités : Joseph Béhé Dessinateur, enseignant; Pascal Boyer Anthropologue, chercheur

durée : 00:22:24 - Le Réveil culturel - par : Tewfik Hakem - Pourquoi existe-t-il des religions, pourquoi les gens sont-ils croyants, tolérants, fanatiques ? Qu'en est-il des croyances ? L'adaptation en bande dessinée d'un essai de l'anthropologue Pascal Boyer par le dessinateur Joseph Béhé, autour de la grande question de la religion - réalisation : Vincent Abouchar - invités : Joseph Béhé Dessinateur, enseignant; Pascal Boyer Anthropologue, chercheur

Dans le 76e épisode du podcast Le bulleur, on vous présente la bande dessinée Ballade pour Sophie que l'on doit au scénario Filipe Melo et au dessin de Juan Cavia et c'est édité chez Paquet. Cette semaine aussi, on revient sur l’actualité de la bande dessinée et des sorties avec : - La récompense du prix FNAC / France Inter remise à Mathieu Bablet pour l'album Carbone & Silicium édité chez Ankama - La sortie de l'album L’homme de la situation, one shot que l'on doit à Lou Lubie et aux éditions Dupuis - La sortie de Pacific palace, album que l'on doit à Christian Durieux et aux éditions Dupuis - La sortie de Tout ce qui reste de nous, album que l'on doit à Rosemary Valero - O'connell et aux éditions Dargaud - La sortie de l'album Yellow Cab, albums que l'on doit à Christophe Chabouté et aux éditions Glénat dans la collection Vents d'ouest - La sortie de l'album Le plongeon que l'on doit au scénario de Séverine Vidal et au dessin de Victor Lorenzo Pinel et c'est édité chez Bamboo dans la collection Grand angle - La sortie de l'album Et l’homme créa les Dieux que l'on doit à Joseph Béhé, basé sur le travail de Pascal Boyer et c'est édité chez Futuropolis

Joseph Béhé s'est attaqué à l'essai « Et l’homme créa les dieux » de l’anthropologue Pascal Boyer. Une bande dessinée énorme qui explore le rapport de l'homme à la religion à travers les âges. La science et la religion imprègnent son œuvre depuis des années. Joseph Béhé a parlé des manipulations génétiques dans la série « Double je », publiée dès le début des années 1990 avec Toff. Il a été complice de scénario de la série « Péché mortel », un récit d’anticipation autour d’un virus qui ressemblait à celui du sida. Il a abordé les spiritualités dans le « Légataire » ou « Le Décalogue » avec Franck Giroud, ou encore « Minuit à Rhodes » avec Eric Boisset. Le voici de retour avec un énorme album de quelque 350 pages, qui explore le rapport de l’homme à la religion à travers une foule de références anthropologiques, ethnographiques, biologiques, théologiques, sociologiques, psychologiques, ou encore neuroscientifiques. Pourquoi existe-t-il des religions ? Ont-elles une origine commune ? Pourquoi les gens sont-ils croyants ? À quoi ressemble le surnaturel ? Pourquoi le fanatisme ? Le monde a-t-il besoin de religion ? Voilà quelques-unes des questions qu’il aborde dans ce nouvel ouvrage, réalisé d’après un essai publié en 2001 chez Robert Laffont par l’anthropologue Pascal Boyer, chercheur au CNRS, et professeur à l’université Washington de Saint-Louis aux États-Unis. Et l’homme créa les dieux sort le 13 janvier aux éditions Futuropolis. Reportage :  la Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation ne se considère pas comme un simple musée, mais comme un espace de recherche et de dialogue autour de l’art et des technologies dans les pays du sud. Seuls des petits groupes de personnes sont admis lors de chaque visite, pour prendre le temps d’admirer quelques pièces sélectionnées. Une nouvelle façon de concevoir les musées, plutôt en adéquation avec les nouveaux enjeux de la pandémie. Un reportage à Johannesburg de Claire Bargelès.  

Scott Dikkers - The Onion's Founder Explains, How To Write Funny - When you think about the funniest things you've read in the past 20 years, must be at the top of the list. The guy who led the company from idea to juggernaut is .  Get Any or the set of Scott series of books When it comes to satirical writing, Scott has led us all to think more deeply about our daily lives, what folks are saying and most importantly; makes us uncomfortable with our own beliefs. This aspect of Scott's art is what drove Pete A Turner to invite Scott to appear on the show.  Scott references Pascal Boyer's book HaikuThe Onion makes laughsScott Dikkers made the OnionSatire is funny Similar episodes: Get your raffle tickets for the Save the Brave rifle at   ​ Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  ​ ​ Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  ​ ​ ​​ ​The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows

Welcome back! Today’s episode is a conversation with Cristine Legare. Cristine is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on how our minds allow us to do culture—to learn it, to create it, and to pass it on. Among other things, we talk about cumulative culture and the human capacities for imitation and innovation. We talk about the power of ritual and about thorny questions surrounding human uniqueness. We touch on work that Cristine and her team have done in Vanuatu. And we muse about the problems facing psychology—in particular the so-called WEIRD problem. For those who may not know, this is the issue of psychologists unduly focusing on a thin slice of humanity—namely, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) folks. I found Cristine’s perspective on this issue—and really on all these issues—super insightful. Without further ado, here is my conversation with Dr. Cristine Legare. Hope you enjoy it! And please be well.   A transcript of this episode is available here.    Notes and links 2:35 – An article about “cumulative culture.” 3:25 –There is debate about whether any non-human animals show evidence of cumulative culture. Here is one review of the topic. 6:30 – A paper by Dr. Legare and a colleague on imitation and innovation as “dual engines of cultural learning.” 10:53 – One of Dr. Legare’s studies examining children’s flexible understanding of when to imitate faithfully. 13:07 – A popular article about the puzzle of why chimps in Zambia started to put grass in their ears. The primary research was reported here. 14:25 – The literature on so-called “over-imitation” is substantial. Here is a recent review. 19:14 – An encyclopedia article by Dr. Legare and a colleague on ritual. See also their paper on the social functions of rituals. 25:45 – Here is the original paper report on the “illusion of explanatory depth.” 28:42 – A paper on how a culture’s history of migration affects how often its members smile. 34:45 – This article describes the puzzle of chimpanzees throwing rocks at trees. 40:18 – This paper by Joe Henrich and colleagues is the source of the acronym WEIRD—that is, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic—and is one of the most cited and discussed papers in the last decade of psychology. Here is a recent popular article on the current state of the WEIRD problem. Finally, see this paper by Dr. Legare and colleagues about the WEIRD bias in developmental psychology. 49:00 – Dr. Legare has done a number of studies in Vanuatu, a culturally diverse archipelago in the South Pacific. 49:32 – A study by Dr. Legare and colleagues comparing triadic interactions in the US and in Vanuatu. 55:51 – Barbara Rogoff, mentioned here, has done a range of important work on learning styles across cultures. See, for example, her book, The Cultural Nature of Human Development. 59:55 – A study by Dr. Legare and colleagues showing that adults in the US and Vanuatu differ in how they evaluate the intelligence of conforming vs non-conforming children. Dr. Legare’s end-of-show recommendations: A good summary of some of the research we discussed by Dr. Legare and her colleagues can be found here. See also the following books: The Secret of Our Success (2018), by Joe Henrich Cognitive Gadgets (2018), by Cecilia Heyes A Different Kind of Animal (2018), by Robert Boyd Minds Make Societies (2018), by Pascal Boyer   The best ways to keep up with Dr. Legare’s research: http://www.cristinelegare.com/   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://www.diverseintelligencessummer.com/), which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted by Kensy Cooperrider, with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster, and Associate Director Hilda Loury. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/). Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/). You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play—or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

Thank you all for this great first week of fundraising. It was great, but I still need more support. I would love to keep doing it for another 2 years, but to be honest, I am broke. For these past two years, I have brought on the show some of the top academics/scholars in a diversity of fields, like Psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and even Literary Studies. Some of the biggest names that appeared throughout my 300 interviews include: Noam Chomsky, Jerome Kagan, Randy Thornhill, Dale Purves, Michael Ruse, David Buss, Simon Blackburn, Alexander Rosenberg, Terrence Deacon, Richard Shweder, Diane Halpern, Robert Plomin, David Sloan Wilson, Richard Wrangham, Azar Gat, David C. Geary, Leda Cosmides, Todd Shackelford, Diana Fleischman, Don Ross, Gad Saad, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Patricia Churchland, David Barash, Peter Singer, Martin Daly, David Benatar, Paul Slovic, Glenn Geher, Lars Penke, Kevin Mitchell, Randolph Nesse, Bo Winegard, Cory Clark, Peter DeScioli, Daniel Nettle, Steve Stewart-Williams, Paul Slovic, Robert Trivers, Helen Fisher, Richard Haier, Nicole Barbaro, Pascal Boyer, Steven Hayes, Lee Cronk, Chris Stringer, Lyn Wadley, Donald Hoffman, Cecilia Heyes, Nicholas Humphrey, Indre Viskontas, Nicholas Christakis, Daniel Lieberman, Marco Del Giudice, Peter Ungar, Alice Eagly, Daniel Everett, Susan Pinker, and many others. On my show, you can certainly find informative, well-researched, engaging, and fun interviews on topics that will feed your intellectual interest. My income for these past two years has depended completely on the donations made by my charitable patrons and Paypal supporters, but, unfortunately, it is not enough. In today's society, scientific literacy is ever more important, and, hopefully, I have been contributing to spread knowledge outside of academia in a format that I try my best to be accessible even to laypeople. So I ask you to please consider supporting me on the platforms I will link down below. -- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao Link for one-time donation on Paypal: paypal.me/thedissenter -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, PER HELGE LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORDE, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, ADAM BJERRE, AIRES ALMEIDA, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, BO WINEGARD, VEGA GIDEY, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, DAVID DIAS, ANJAN KATTA, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ARTHUR KOH, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, MAX BEILBY, COLIN HOLBROOK, SUSAN PINKER, THOMAS TRUMBLE! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, ROSEY, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, ILEWELLYN OSBORNE, IAN GILLIGAN, AND SERGIU CONDREANU! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MICHAL RUSIECKI! Also, a special thanks for people who have been supporting me in different ways along the way, like Rob Sica. And people who became my friends, like Patrick Lee Miller, Bo Winegard, Cory Clark, and Sven Nyholm.

Just this past Sunday, was the 2-year anniversary of the show. I would love to keep doing it for another 2 years, but to be honest, I am broke. In order to sustain the channel, I need your help. For these past two years, I have brought on the show some of the top academics/scholars in a diversity of fields, like Psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and even Literary Studies. Some of the biggest names that appeared throughout my 300 interviews include: Noam Chomsky, Jerome Kagan, Randy Thornhill, Dale Purves, Michael Ruse, David Buss, Simon Blackburn, Alexander Rosenberg, Terrence Deacon, Richard Shweder, Diane Halpern, Robert Plomin, David Sloan Wilson, Richard Wrangham, Azar Gat, David C. Geary, Leda Cosmides, Todd Shackelford, Diana Fleischman, Don Ross, Gad Saad, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Patricia Churchland, David Barash, Peter Singer, Martin Daly, David Benatar, Paul Slovic, Glenn Geher, Lars Penke, Kevin Mitchell, Randolph Nesse, Bo Winegard, Cory Clark, Peter DeScioli, Daniel Nettle, Steve Stewart-Williams, Paul Slovic, Robert Trivers, Helen Fisher, Richard Haier, Nicole Barbaro, Pascal Boyer, Steven Hayes, Lee Cronk, Chris Stringer, Lyn Wadley, Donald Hoffman, Cecilia Heyes, Nicholas Humphrey, Indre Viskontas, Nicholas Christakis, Daniel Lieberman, Marco Del Giudice, Peter Ungar, Alice Eagly, Daniel Everett, and many others. On my show, you can certainly find informative, well-researched, engaging, and fun interviews on topics that will feed your intellectual interest. My income for these past two years has depended completely on the donations made by my charitable patrons and Paypal supporters, but, unfortunately, it is not enough. In today's society, scientific literacy is ever more important, and, hopefully, I have been contributing to spread knowledge outside of academia in a format that I try my best to be accessible even to laypeople. So I ask you to please consider supporting me on the platforms I will link down below. As a teaser, and if you become a patron of mine, you will be on time to send me questions to pose to people like Steven Pinker and Robert Sapolsky, who I will be interviewing in March. You will also get a wealth of other benefits. I am leaving a link to my Patreon page and links to monthly subscriptions on Paypal, and also a link to Paypal for a one-time big donation, if you prefer, if any of you would be generous enough to become a patron or give me a one-time big donation. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao Link for one-time donation on Paypal: paypal.me/thedissenter -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORDE, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, AIRES ALMEIDA, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, BO WINEGARD, VEGA GIDEY, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, DAVID DIAS, ANJAN KATTA, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, AND FILIP FORS CONNOLLY! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, ROSEY, JIM FRANK, AND ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MICHAL RUSIECKI!

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Cette semaine, Phil et Pat reçoivent Pascal Boyer et Jonathan Dion. D'entrée de jeu Pascal nous explique comment son urine aurait pu provoquer un conflit international, une escarmouche dans un parc à chien mène à la création d'un nouveau corps policier et un Madelinot-Gaspésien collectionne des bouteille en mer.

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Remember your six year old self? Your thirteen year old self? Your twenty year old self? Are you the same person as you were then?  Memory provides an important sense of continuity to our lives.  But do our memories make us who we are?   In this episode, Clay and Sarah delve deep into the land of memory to discuss: * Amnesia and what is reality like when you've forgotten your past (see this great article by Daniel Levitin, 'Amnesia & the Self that Remains when Memory is Lost') * Different kinds of memory (Semantic, Procedural, Episodic) * Are we the same person through time? * High school reunions - when the person people 'remember' collides with the person you are now * The impact of shared memories - family memories & communal memories * Questions of memory in pop culture - the film Momento & the TV series Black Mirror * What makes you You? Memories? Personality? Habits? Deeper consciousness?   What is memory for anyway?  A simple answer would be -- so we can learn from our past.  So we can respond quickly and appropriately to new situations based on past encounters. However, scholar Pascal Boyer has an interesting answer to this question.  First we should understand that there are actually three different kinds of memory: Semantic Memory (memory of info about your environment), Procedural Memory (memory of skills and how to do things) and Episodic Memory (memory of unique, specific situations in the past - what we think of as our memory!). Both Procedural and Semantic Memory help us by taking specific situations and extracting common elements about them so that we might use that information when a similar situation arises again. But Episodic Memory doesn't do this.  Instead it focuses on what is unique about an event, and 'remembering' this kind of information can involve not only a recall of information but a sense of 're-experiencing' the past event.  In other words, this kind of memory -- what we think of as our Memory -- does not give a simple, straightforward answer of what it is for. Instead, these unique past events line up as thoughts in our mind and form a kind of 'Autobiographical Memory'... the story of who we are and how we got to be this way. Or, as Ulric Neisser named it, the "Narrative Self" which consists of events linked in a causal story leading to one's present. But as we all know, often we remember what we want to remember.  And we remember events the way we want to remember them. This suggests that it isn't our memories which made us who we are... it is who we are (or who we think we are) that makes our memories.  In other words, we remember certain events precisely because they fit into our causal story about why we are who we are. And then of course, it is impossible to escape the fact that, although we might get lost in our thoughts and feel as if we were re-experiencing a past event... although we might feel angry, embarrassed, or suddenly sad by remembering something that has already happened, ultimately all these memories are all just thoughts.  Made up thoughts.  Imaginary thoughts. They aren't happening anymore.  And they may not even accurately represent what actually happened. "A memory is a mental event in the virtual reality of the mind..."  

Why is there some “religious stuff” in all human societies? A tempting answer is that religions are somehow grounded in evolved properties of human minds. Recently, some have even suggested that religion could have been selected for ensuring large-scale cooperation and prosocial behavior. Considering the empirical evidence leads to a more sober understanding of the evolutionary processes underpinning the emergence and spread of religious concepts and norms. The term “religion” misleadingly lumps together three very different kinds of social-cultural processes, unlikely to have spread in the same contexts. I propose to model the diffusion of religious concepts in terms of cultural epidemics based on universal cognitive dispositions, showing how some (not all) religious concepts can serve as recruitment devices in building coalitions. [March 24, 2015]