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Global COE International Symposium "Evolution, Development and Education of Logic and Sensibility" is held on 7-8th March, 2010

Global COE International Symposium "Evolution, Development and Education of Logic and Sensibility" is to be held as follows.
* Admission free, no registration required.
* This event will be held in English; no interpretation will be provided.


Title: "Evolution, Development and Education of Logic and Sensibility"
Date and Time: Sunday, 7th March, 2010; 9:00 - 17:10 / Monday, 8th March, 2010; 9:00 - 16:35
Venue: North Building Hall, Mita Campus, Keio University

"Evolution and Development of Logic and Sensibility" [Sunday, 7th March]
Chair: Shigeru Watanabe (Keio University)/ Jun-ichi Yamamoto (Keio University)
Speakers and Themes:
Gavin Hunt (The University of Auckland) "How pandanus tool manufacture and use develops in free-living juvenile New Caledonian crows"
Hans-Joachim Bischof (Universität Bielefeld) "Pair Formation in Birds - Based on Logic or on Sensibility?"
Franck Péron (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) "Social cognition in African grey parrots"
Yasuyo Minagawa-Kawai (Keio University) "Acquisition of linguistic logic in infants' native language"
Joseph McCleery (University of Birmingham) "The neurodevelopmental basis of social and non-social functioning differences in children with autism"
Shigeru Kitazawa (Juntendo University) "Toward a cure based on a better understanding of autism"
Kosuke Takahashi (University of Tsukuba / Keio University) "Relational learning in children with autism"
"Evolution, Logic and Sensibility of Education" [Monday, 8th March]
Chair: Juko Ando (Keio University)
Speakers and Themes:
Alex Thornton (University of Cambridge) "The evolution of teaching"
Masaki Tomonaga (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University) "Social-cognitive bases for (non-) active teaching in chimpanzees"
John Sweller (The University of New South Wales) "Biological evolution and human cognition: Logical, natural information processing systems that lead to instructional design principles"
Sidney Strauss (Tel Aviv University) "Human and non-human teaching are not the same: A cautionary note against conflating them"
Mariko Hasegawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) "Sympathy, imagination and teaching: The origin and evolution of human education"
Kazushige Akagi (Mie University) "Development of teaching behavior in children with autism and typical development"
Keisaku Tamada (Keio University) "Evolution of manga and manga in education."

Organized by: Global COE Program "Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility", Keio University
Co-Organized by: Mita Philosophy Society
Reference: " Evolution, Development and Education of Logic and Sensibility "