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According to Wikipedia, Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist and philosopher. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of the social sciences. He has developed: an approach to cultural evolution known as the epidemiology of representations or cultural attraction theory as part of a naturalistic reconceptualization of the social; relevance theory; the argumentative theory of reasoning. Sperber formerly Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is Professor in the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest.

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Relevance: Communication and Cognition (1986) (4483)
Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach (1998) (1819)
Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory (2011) (1475)
Relevance: Communication and cognition, 2nd ed. (1995) (1232)
Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading (2002) (820)
Epistemic Vigilance (2010) (796)
Linguistic form and relevance (1993) (791)
Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate (1996) (689)
The Enigma of Reason (2017) (659)
Attribution of Beliefs by 13-Month-Old Infants (2007) (630)
Irony and the Use-Mention Distinction (1981) (630)
Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations (1985) (585)
Relevance theory explains the selection task (1995) (525)
The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations. (1994) (502)
Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition (1987) (445)
The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity (2004) (443)
Truthfulness and Relevance (2002) (408)
A mutualistic approach to morality: the evolution of fairness by partner choice. (2013) (396)
The moral, epistemic, and mindreading components of children’s vigilance towards deception (2009) (379)
Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective (2000) (336)
Meaning and Relevance (2012) (276)
Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective (2000) (267)
A deflationary account of metaphors (2008) (231)
An objection to the memetic approach to culture (2001) (215)
On anthropological knowledge (1985) (212)
Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences (1988) (211)
On Grice's Theory of Conversation (1981) (206)
Test of the Mention Theory of Irony (1984) (206)
The Why and How of experimental pragmatics: The case of ‘Scalar Inferences’ (2007) (200)
How Darwinian is cultural evolution? (2014) (199)
Evolution, communication, and the proper function of language (2000) (198)
An Evolutionary Perspective on Testimony and Argumentation (2001) (183)
In defense of massive modularity (2001) (165)
Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive? (2004) (154)
Beyond Speaker’s Meaning (2015) (142)
The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon (Reprint of Sperber & Wilson 1998) (2011) (140)
The mapping between the mental and the public Lexicon (2012) (137)
The role of attraction in cultural evolution (2007) (134)
Intuitive and Reflective Inferences (2008) (124)
Verbal irony: Pretense or echoic mention? (1984) (120)
Representation and Relevance (1988) (115)
Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective (2012) (114)
Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading (To appear in Mind and Language) (2001) (113)
Irony and relevance: A reply to Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi (1998) (111)
Intuitive and reflective beliefs (1997) (111)
Ordered Entailments: An Alternative to Presuppositional Theories (1979) (110)
Pragmatics and time (1998) (104)
On anthropological knowledge : three essays (1985) (98)
IX—Loose Talk (1986) (96)
A Deflationary Account of Metaphor * (2009) (95)
Mutual knowledge and relevance in theories of comprehension (1998) (93)
Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture (2010) (93)
Truthfulness and Relevance in Telling The Time (2002) (91)
Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences (1997) (89)
Rhetoric and Relevance (1990) (88)
Making disjunctions exclusive (2008) (83)
Outline of relevance theory (1987) (77)
Modularity and Relevance (2005) (71)
Learning without teaching: Its place in culture. (1991) (71)
Seedless grapes: nature and culture (2007) (70)
Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory (1996) (67)
Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions (2002) (66)
Pragmatics and modularity (1986) (64)
Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution is Incompatible with Shallow Psycholgoy (2006) (62)
Defining and explaining culture (comments on Richerson and Boyd, Not by genes alone) (2008) (61)
Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task (2001) (60)
Presumptions of relevance (1987) (60)
Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby (2002) (59)
Reasoning as a Social Competence (2010) (54)
CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR A NATURAL SCIENCE OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE (1999) (54)
Meaning and Relevance: Explaining irony (2012) (52)
Culture and modularity (2006) (52)
When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems (2002) (50)
Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance (2004) (49)
A mutualistic approach to morality (2011) (48)
The Guru Effect (2010) (47)
Evidence for Unintentional Emotional Contagion Beyond Dyads (2013) (47)
Inference and Implicature (1986) (46)
Verbal Irony : Pretense or Echoic Mention ? (2005) (46)
Why rethink interdisciplinarity (2003) (42)
Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge (2006) (42)
Culture, Cognition, and Evolution (1999) (41)
Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic thought? (1996) (41)
Cutting culture at the joints? (2017) (41)
The city in Roman Palestine (1998) (38)
Argumentation: Its adaptiveness and efficacy (2011) (37)
Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010) (37)
Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla) (1996) (36)
The interpretation of symbolism (1976) (30)
Does the selection task detect cheater detection (2002) (29)
Some Rabbinic Themes in Magical Papyri (1985) (29)
SPEAKERS ARE HONEST BECAUSE HEARERS ARE VIGILANT REPLY TO KOURKEN MICHAELIAN1 (2013) (28)
Social Legislation in Jerusalem During the Latter Part of the Second Temple Period (1975) (27)
A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language (2010) (26)
Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Chinese Edition) (2002) (26)
Spontaneous deduction and mutual knowledge (1990) (25)
Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution (2018) (23)
The Evolution of Human Language: A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language (2010) (22)
The evolution of the language faculty: A paradox and its solution (1990) (21)
Optimistic expectations about communication explain children's difficulties in hiding, lying, and mistrusting liars* (2016) (20)
The why and how of experimental pragmatics (2012) (20)
Costs of Living in Roman Palestine (1965) (18)
The Relevance of models for social anthropology (1966) (17)
Evolution of fairness: cultural variability. (2010) (17)
On choosing the context for utterance interpretation (1985) (17)
An expert on every street corner? Methods for eliciting distributions in geographically dispersed opinion pools. (2013) (16)
D. Sperber: "the modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations", en l. A. Hirschfeld y S. A. Gelman (eds), mapping the mind (1994) (16)
Culturally transmitted misbeliefs (2009) (16)
Roman Palestine, 200-400: Money and Prices. (1976) (15)
Relevance theory: A tutorial (2002) (15)
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms: A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences (2011) (14)
Denarii and Aurei in the Time of Diocletian (1966) (13)
Objects of Trade Between Palestine and Egypt in Roman Times (1976) (13)
The cost-effectiveness of a law banning the use of cellular phones by drivers. (2010) (13)
Irony and relevance (1998) (12)
of Greek and Latin Legal Terms in Rabbinic Literature. (1984) (12)
Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm (2020) (12)
The Future of Writing (2008) (12)
L. Bender, Omotic : A New Afroasiatic Language Family (1977) (12)
A Note on a Coin of Antigonus Mattathias (1964) (11)
Palestinian Currency Systems during the Second Commonwealth (1966) (11)
Effect of psychological bias separates cultural from biological evolution (2012) (11)
"Two heads are better" stands to reason. (2012) (11)
Neural Interaction between Logical Reasoning and Pragmatic Processing in Narrative Discourse (2015) (11)
Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology (2012) (10)
The natural selection of fidelity in social learning (2010) (10)
P. N. Johnson-Laird & P. C. Wason, eds., Thinking. Readings in Cognitive Science (1979) (10)
Partner choice, fairness, and the extension of morality. (2013) (9)
Critique de l'anthropologie (1969) (9)
Drought, Famine and Pestilence in Amoraic Palestine (1974) (9)
Reasoning, Judgment, and Pragmatics (2006) (9)
Culture and Modularity This chapter integrates and expands elements from Sperber () and Sperber & Hirschfeld (). (2007) (8)
Rudiments of Cognitive Rhetoric (2007) (8)
Relevance, Contextual Effects and Least Effort@@@Relevance, Communication and Cognition (1986) (8)
Essays on Greek and Latin in the Mishna, Talmud and Midrashic literature (1982) (7)
6 Explaining irony (2012) (7)
L'Interprétation en anthropologie (1981) (7)
The role of attraction in cultural evolution ( Reply to (2006) (7)
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (7)
The Jewish life cycle : custom, lore and iconography : Jewish customs from the cradle to the grave (2008) (7)
Issues in the Ontology of Culture11 (1986) (6)
Reply to Rajagopalan (2005) (6)
Do taboo trade-offs explain the difficulty in valuing health and social interventions? (2009) (6)
Studies in Judaica, Karaitica, and Islamica : presented to Leon Nemoy on his eightieth birthday (1982) (6)
How Do We Communicate (2020) (6)
Meaning and Relevance: Introduction (2012) (5)
Agency, religion, and magic (2004) (5)
When is ostensive communication used for joint action? (2021) (5)
5 A deflationary account of metaphors (2012) (5)
Patronage in Amoraic Palestine (c. 220-400): Causes and Effects (1971) (5)
The mapping between the public and the private lexicon (1998) (5)
ON SEALING THE ABYSSES (1966) (5)
Why a modular approach to reason? (2018) (5)
Pragmatics: An Overview. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 16. (1986) (5)
Rabbinic Knowledge of Greek (2006) (5)
Opinion forming in the digital age (2018) (4)
Personal Notes on a Shared Trajectory (2019) (4)
Twenty-four centuries of literary studies recapitulated in ten years of cognitive science: And Now What? (1983) (4)
3 A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences (2011) (4)
Recent approaches to bridging (2012) (4)
Conceptual Tools for a Naturalistic Approach to Cultural Evolution (2011) (4)
Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory - Response (1996) (3)
A Puzzle about Belief-ascription 1 (2012) (3)
A Note on Hasmonean Coin-Legends: Heber and Rosh Heber (1965) (3)
Evolution of the selfish gene (2006) (3)
The History of the Menorah (1965) (3)
Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution (1997) (3)
The self-appointment of Seuren as Censor a reply to Pieter Seuren (1986) (3)
The pragmatic role of trust in young children’s interpretation of unfamiliar signals (2019) (2)
Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions: The Mother's Brother controversy reconsidered (2021) (2)
Instincts or gadgets? Not the debate we should be having (2019) (2)
Angaria in Rabbinic Literature (1969) (2)
Opinion forming in the digital age: Fake news, echo chambers and populism - Key themes, concerns & recommendations for European research and innovation (2018) (2)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, a precursor? (2008) (2)
Chapter 8 Interpreting and explaining cultural representations 1 (2)
I Don't Think So: A Reply to Sneddon (2003) (2)
The mutual relevance of teaching and cultural attraction. (2015) (2)
A Forward Bias in Human Profile-Oriented Portraits (2020) (2)
Costs of Living in Roman Palestine II (Continued) (1966) (2)
What causes failure to apply the Pigeonhole Principle in simple reasoning problems? (2017) (2)
Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classifications. (1975) (2)
La pertinence: Communication et cognition (French translation of Relevance: Communication and Cognitioin) (1989) (2)
Inference and implicature (Reprint of Wilson & Sperber 1986) (1991) (2)
Inference and and Implication (1986) (1)
Trends in Third Century Palestinian Agriculture (1972) (1)
The use of computers in anthropology, edited by Dell Hymes. (1967) (1)
15 Reasoning as a Social Competence (2012) (1)
Making sense of human interaction benefits from communicative cues (2020) (1)
The social anthropology of complex societies, edited by M. Banton. (1966) (1)
J. Stauder, The Majangir. Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People (1972) (1)
Laesio Enormis and the Talmudic Law of Ona'ah (1973) (1)
Arguments for an argumentative theory (2011) (1)
Are folk taxonomies “memes”? (1998) (1)
Salvaging parts of the “classical theory” of categorization (1986) (1)
Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Chinese translation) (2008) (1)
Scientific Cognition and Cultural Evolution (2007) (1)
Rabbinic Notes to Graeco-Coptica (1979) (1)
Anthropological approaches to the study of religions, edited by M. Banton. (1966) (1)
Aspects of Agrarian Life in Roman Palestine I: Agricultural Decline in Palestine during the Later Principate (1978) (1)
Mark XII 42 and Its Metrological Background: A Study in Ancient Syriac Versions (1967) (1)
C. White, Patrons and Partisans. A Study of Politics in Two Southern Italian Communi (1982) (0)
Understanding suicide terrorism (2003) (0)
Mark xii 42 and Its Metrological Background (1967) (0)
RELEVANCIA (Portuguese translation of Relevance: Communication and Cognition) (2001) (0)
Review of Tim Lewens, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (2016) (0)
Learning from Communication Versus Observation: Great Apes Ignore Theirobservation When it Contradicts Communicatively Transmitted Information (2021) (0)
On Grice's theory of conversation (Reprint of Wilson & Sperber 1981) (1998) (0)
Precis of 'Relevance' (Reprint of Sperber & Wilson 1987) (1998) (0)
[Book Chapter] (Unpublished) (2002) (0)
Accuracy and relevance in giving the time (2000) (0)
Resumen de The Enigma of Reason (2019) (0)
Moneta Bicharacta—Disgnim (1974) (0)
Public norms and mental attitudes (2011) (0)
Interpreting and explaining cultural representations 1 (2020) (0)
Chapter 7 Intuitive and reflective inferences (2008) (0)
[Book Chapter] (in Press) (2000) (0)
They Do What? a Cultural Encyclopedia of Extraordinary and Exotic Customs from around the World (1999) (0)
Introduction: A Double Enigma (2017) (0)
Stuart S. MILLER, Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity ed. Jacob Neusner vol. 37), E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1984, x and 160 pp., cloth fl. 60,- (1985) (0)
Sperber, "A Commentary on Derech Ereẓ Zuta 5-8" (1995) (0)
16. Is Human Reason Universal (2017) (0)
Meaning and Relevance: Truthfulness and relevance (2012) (0)
Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity 1 (2020) (0)
The Use of Archaeology in Understanding Rabbinic Materials: A Talmudic Perspective (2014) (0)
The Anthropological Difference in the Philological Framework (0)
Nautica in Talmudic Palestine (2000) (0)
The Market: Physical Aspects (1999) (0)
TITLE Whole Teaching: Performative Acts in Good Faith. (1988) (0)
Comprar Relevance: Communication and Cognition | Dan Sperber | 9780631198789 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Calculo—Logistes—ḥashban (1969) (0)
On salience , counterintuitivity and tradition (2004) (0)
Irony and the Use-Mention distinction (Reprint of Sperber & Wilson 1981) (1991) (0)
Joshua SCHWARTZ, Ha-Yishuv ha-Yehudi bi-Yehudah mi-le-ahar Milhemet Bar-Kochba ve'ad la-Kibbush ha-'Aravi, 135-640 C. E. (Jewish Settlement in Judaea after the Bar-Kochba War until the Arab Conquest), The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1986, 319 pp., 1 map, n.pr (1987) (0)
Notes: A Note on Some Shi`urim and Graeco-Roman Measurements (1969) (0)
THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO CHARISMA This study diverges from much of the earlier scholarly work on new religious movements in that it approaches the subject matter from the viewpoint of cognitive science of religion (0)
Matching matchboxes: Co-actors create non-conventional communication systems for joint action (2016) (0)
Meaning and Relevance: Preface (2012) (0)
Remember the Positive (2008) (0)
3 In Defense of Massive Modularity (2006) (0)
Mutual Exclusivity Revisited - When Pragmatics overrides Novelty (2017) (0)
D. N. Levine, Greater Ethiopia : The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society (1977) (0)
IN DEFENSE OF MASSIVE MODULARITY In October 1990 , a psychologist , (2002) (0)
J. Goody, The Domestication of the Savage Mind (1978) (0)
Developmental and cultural factors in economic beliefs (2018) (0)
27 Relevance Theory (0)
Templeton Research Lecture "The Causes of Religion": "Rituals and Institutions" (2008) (0)
The exposure of metaphor (2013) (0)
On the πύργoς as a Farm Building (1976) (0)
Templeton Research Lecture "The Causes of Religion": "Asking the Right Questions" (2008) (0)
Commentary/Finker & Bloom: Language and selection (2009) (0)
Books received (1987) (0)
Part I : Causal representation in animal cognition Instrumental action and causal representation (2014) (0)
Loose talk (Reprint of Sperber & Wilson 1985/6) (1991) (0)
ELIZABETH S. SPELKE (MIT) Children's use of geometry and landmarks to reorient in an open space, 119±148 JENNY R. SAFFRAN (University of Wisconsin±Madison) Words in a sea of sounds: the output of infant statistical learning, 149±169 Brief articles (2001) (0)
Asher Selig KAUFMAN, The Temple of Jerusalem. Part I: Tractate Middot, Har Ye'ra'eh Press, Jerusalem 1991, 102 and viii pp., cloth, n.pr. ISBN 965 379 0013 (Hebrew) (1992) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1986) (0)
Ethical Investment: a Jewish Perspective (2006) (0)
Précis of The Enigma of Reason (2019) (0)
Reasoning: Use or Misuse of the Selection Task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby (2008) (0)
8. Could Reason Be a Module (2017) (0)
Roads and Backstreets (1999) (0)
Templeton Research Lecture "The Causes of Religion": "Beliefs and Values" (2008) (0)
Learning from communication versus observation in great apes (2022) (0)
Morality and Reputation: An Evolutionist Perspective (2013) (0)
Bounded reason in a social world (2020) (0)
On verbal irony (Reprint of Wilson & Sperber 1992) (2007) (0)
A Note On Leviticus Xxvii 28 (1966) (0)
Conference on Evolution and the Human Sciences (1992) (0)
Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Korean translation) (2010) (0)
To appear in a Feschrift for Jacques Mehler at MIT Press) (2002) (0)
Conclusion: In Praise of Reason after All (2017) (0)
9. Reasoning: Intuition and Reflection (2017) (0)
On the Bathhouse (1999) (0)
Sperber's "Nautica Talmudica" (1990) (0)
Is there a forward bias in human profile portraits? (2018) (0)
7. How We Use Reasons (2017) (0)
Meaning and Relevance: Notes (2012) (0)
Roman Palestine 200-400. Money and Prices (1977) (0)
A note on Kommidion and the Gum Trade (1973) (0)
Learning from Communication Versus Observation: Great Apes Ignore Their Observation When It Contradicts Communicatively Transmitted Information (2020) (0)
Catalogue of Coins in the Jewish Museum (London) (1967) (0)
10 Culture and Modularity (0)
Can we believe (2007) (0)
3. From Unconscious Inferences to Intuitions (2017) (0)
Relevance: Communication and Cognition. (Japanese Translation) (1999) (0)
Do chimpanzees and orangutans use communication in a cooperative task (2016) (0)
Chapter 5 Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective (2010) (0)
Benign Illusions in a Benevolent Community of Knowledge (2018) (0)
E. Hutchins, Culture and Inference. A Trobriand Case Study (1982) (0)
Relevance: Komunikasi & Kognisi (Malaysian translation of Relevance: Communication and Cognition) (1999) (0)
La pertinenza (Italian translation of Relevance: Communication and Cognition) (1993) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2005) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Eating as a Sacrament– The Eating Table and the Coffin (2019) (0)
4 Rhetoric and relevance (2012) (0)
Inflation and linkage (indexation) in Roman Palestine : a study in reactions to inflation (1978) (0)

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