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Documents and media Download support Abstract Leaving Athens behind, this lesson explores the dossier of epigraphically attested oaths all around the Aegean Sea. This investigation attests to the omnipresence of commitment rituals involving animals in all …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Hannah Steinicke Hannah Steinicke is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Justus-Liebig University Gießen in Germany. Recently, she worked on the mental representation of sets in infants in …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Abstract Children become able to process verbal identity statements as they learn to attribute false beliefs. The mental files explanation points to the need for linked indexed files for solving both tasks, which children achieve …

Chair: Michael Murez Abstract Scene constructions, or more broadly, episodic simulations, are internal representations of states, relations, and events in the spatial navigational system of the brain. These constructions serve various purposes, including …

Abstract This session looks at the tensions and articulations between nationalism, socialism and cosmopolitanism. It examines how socialist movements have attempted to articulate the struggle for social justice with the national question, oscillating …

Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Ancient Rome (1754-1757) Abstract The ancients, too, were keen to research the origins of words in order to shed light on their meaning. Roman jurists, in particular, were passionate about their research. Their hypotheses sometimes …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract I propose that communication with the indexical pronoun 'I' requires coordination on a familiar discourse referent, just like communication with anaphoric (or deictic) use of 'she'. This proposal improves on a contrasting …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract Discourse referents are "mental files" insofar as they are mental representations that function like variables: they architecturally separate addresses from contents. I argue for a construal of discourse referents in which …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract In previous work, I argue that discourse referents-devices for tracking objects under discussion in discourse-are best understood as mental files: vehicles for tracking the same object in cognition independently of any …

Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract MSDRT (Mental State Discourse Representation Theory) has developed a number of different Types of Entity Representations (its term for what is referred to by others as Mental Files). The different ER Types are for …

Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract Two ideas characterize many discussions of discourse files or discourse referents. One is that they are only temporary, serving as mental proxies for individuals only across some segment of discourse. Dissociations …

Round table on the theme: Mithra in dialogue in Central Asia, Iran and Rome: 1. the Iranological viewpoint (part 2. Le point de vue des études gréco-romaines , will take place at Sorbonne Université in November or December …

Abstract Why did scientific theories on cooperation between organisms only emerge at the end of the 19 th century, when competition and parasitism were already well enough known to have been taken into account by evolutionary theor? At the time, the …

Abstract Since the 1960s-1970s, there have been three revolutions in the way we do business, all of which are aimed at achieving a sustainable economy. The first concerns our relationship with living organisms, the second with industry, and the third with …

Abstract In a period of continuous accumulation of political, military, economic and climatic crises, economic security has become a priority for all major regions. The race for industrial policies and the ensuing power struggles over resources seem to …