The Researchers
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Marc D. Hauser
• 1981: Bsc, Bucknell University
• 1987: PhD, UCLA (Advisors: R. Seyfarth & D. Cheney)
• 1988: Post-doc, U. Michigan (Advisor: R. Wrangham)
• 1989-1992: Post-doc, Rockefeller U., UC-Davis (Advisor: P. Marler)
• 1992-1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
• 1994: NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 1996-1998: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
• 1998-present: Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
• 2001: Harvard College Professor Chair for distinction in teaching and research
• Co-Director, Mind, Brain and Behavior Program, Harvard University
• 2000-present, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
• Editorial Boards: Cognition, Trends in Cognitive Science, Review of General Psychology, Animal Cognition
• 2 single authored books, 2 co-edited books, 25 book reviews, 125+ scholarly articles and book chapters
• Research interests: language and thought, conceptual representations, language evolution, animal communication, knowledge of tools, number, space, food, and animacy, moral intuitions
• Past and present PhDs: Brenda McGowan, Mike Wilson, Jerald Kralik, Claudia Uller, Daniel Weiss, Laurie Santos, Cory Miller, Ricardo gil da Costa, Brian Hare, Rebecca Coughlin, Josh McDermott, Somangshu Mukherji, Justin Wood
• Past and present Post-docs: Linda Anderson, Julia Fischer, Tecumseh Fitch, Jerald Kralik, Stephane Gouteux, Asif Ghazanfar, Joanna Bryson, Ruth Tincoff, Roian Egnor, Jeff Stevens, Alberto Palleroni
Fiery Cushman
• 2003: BA, Harvard College
• 2003 - present: Research Assistant, Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard University
• 1 co-edited book
• Research interests: the evolution of social cognition, especially regarding cooperation, punishment, and moral intuitions
Liane Lee Young
• 2000 - present: Harvard College, Philosophy
• 2003 - present: Undergraduate thesis research with Marc Hauser on moral intuitions at Harvard University
• 2000 - present: Neuroscience research with David Hubel and Kevin Duffy at Harvard Medical School
• 2002 - present: President of Harvard Society of Mind, Brain and Behavior (HSMBB)
• 2002 - present: Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Brain, Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Mind, Brain and Behavior
• Research Interests: moral intuitions, action theory, David Hume, normative ethics, biomedical ethics, psychopathology, vision
Kang-Xing Jin
• 2002 - present: Harvard College, Computational Neuroscience
• Research interests: moral intuitions, linguistics, computational vision/image processing, ethics
John Mikhail
• 1991: BA, Amherst College
• 2000: PhD in Philosophy, Cornell University (Advisors: Noam Chomsky, Richard Miller, Jason Stanley, Allen Wood); Graduate Minor in Cognitive Studies
• PhD Dissertation: “Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy: A Study of the ‘Generative Grammar’ Model of Moral Theory Described by John Rawls in ‘A Theory of Justice’” (UMI # 9967447)
• 1997-2001: Research Affiliate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T. (Advisor: Elizabeth Spelke)
• 2002: JD, Stanford Law School
• 2003-present: Law Clerk to Judge Rosemary Barkett, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• 1995-1998: Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
• 1998-1999: Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, M.I.T.
• 2001: Visiting Junior Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2002: Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School
• Editorial Boards: Stanford Law Review; Stanford Journal of Int’l Law
• Select Publications: “Law, Science, and Morality,” 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1057 (2002); “Toward a Universal Moral Grammar” (with C. Sorrentino and E. Spelke), 19 Proc. Cog. Sci. Soc. 1250 (1998)
• Research Interests: moral and legal cognition, action theory, universal grammar, philosophy of language and mind, moral and political philosophy, criminal law theory, law and social norms, philosophical foundations of human rights