Richard Moore

PhD Philosophy, Warwick

Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

 

 

Research interests:

I'm interested in the nature of communication, its cognitive prerequisites, and in the continuities and discontinuities that exist between the communicative abilities of non-human great apes, human infants and human adults.

Issues on which I'm currently working include:

• the intentional structure of communication;
• the contrasting motives with which non-human great apes and humans communicate;
• gestural communication;
• linguistic conventions, and the cognitive requirements for participating in them; and
• social learning, including imitation.

I'm a philosopher by training, but also run empirical studies designed to shed light on these issues.

 

PhD thesis:

Learning to Do Things with Words (unpublished) [pdf]