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From: John Brockman < > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:32 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey Subject: Master Class Sept 5-6 Eastover Farm "HeadCon '14: WHAT'S NEW IN SOCIAL SCIENCE?' A year ago, on the weekend after Labor Day, EDGE ran a rehearsal, or dry =un, towards a possible annual event which would be an EDGE weekend =eminar at Eastover Farm focusing on the state of the art of what the social sciences have to tell us about human nature. For want of =omething more serious, we called it "THE HEAD CONFERENCE", =hich morphed into "HEADCON 2013: WHAT'S NEW IN THE =OCTAL SCIENCES". The ten speakers were Sendhil Mullainathan, June =ruber, Fiery Cushman, Rob Kurzban, Nicholas Christakis, Joshua Greene, =aurie Santos, Joshua Knobe, David Pizarro, Daniel C. Dennett. Also =articipating as kibitzers were Daniel Kahneman, Anne Treisman, and =ennifer Jacquet. We asked to them consider the following questions in a =alf hour talk, with the expectation that they would be challenged in a =alf hour discussion period: "WHAT'S NEW IN YOUR FIELD OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO, AND =HY SHOULD WE CARE?" "WHY DO WE WANT OR NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT?" =HOW DOES IT CHANGE OUR VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE?" We also asked the speakers to focus broadly and address the major =evelopments in their field (including but not limited to their own =esearch agenda). The goal: to get new, fresh, and original up-to-date =field reports on different areas of social science. We asked for, and =he speakers delivered, new, fresh, and original talks: an up-to-date =field report on their area of social science — conversational =alks: "new, true, important, and well said", and NOT canned =ower-Point or slide-driven conference talks, or material they had =reviously presented. (In fact, power-point, slides, and other such =isual aids were, and are, off-limits at EDGE events). HeadCon '13: WHAT'S NEW IN SOCIAL SCIENCE was also an experiment in =nline video designed to capture the dynamic of an EDGE seminar, =ocusing on the interaction of ideas, and of people. The documentary =ilm-maker Jason Wishnow, the pioneer of "TED Talks" during his tenure =s director of film and video at TED (2006-2012), helped us develop this =ew iteration of Edge Video, filming the ten sessions in split-screen =ith five cameras, presenting each speaker and the surrounding =articipants from multiple simultaneous camera perspectives. The event consisted of a dinner Friday night, followed by an all-day =ession Saturday at the Farm for a series of talks. We wrapped up with =n early dinner at a restaurant ending 8-8:30pm. The participants stayed =t a nearby conference hotel. EDGE picked up transportation expenses =air, train, car rental) and hotel room charges. We published the program in its entirety on EDGE - nearly six hours of =dge Video and a downloadable PDF of the 58,000-word transcript - to a ride global audience and to acclaim within the social sciences. As =lways, as a public service, it is available to the public free of =harge. HeadCon '13: WHAT'S NEW IN SOCIAL SCIENCE? rttp://edge.org/event/headcon-13-whats-new-in-social-science EFTA_R1_02020565 EFTA02688445 PROGRAM: "What Big Data Means For Social Science" (Sendhil Mullainathan) = "The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion" (June Gruber) I "The =aradox of Automatic Planning" (Fiery Cushman) I "P-Hacking and the =eplication Crisis" (Rob Kurzban) I "The Science of Social Connections" =Nicholas Christakis) I "The Role of Brain Imaging in Social Science" =Joshua Greene) I "What Makes Humans Unique" (Laurie Santos) I =Experimental Philosophy and the Notion of the Self" (Joshua Knobe) I =The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions" (David Pizarro) I "The =e-Darwinizing of Cultural Change" (Daniel C. Dennett). HEADCON '14 With the success of last year's event we have decided to extend =nd expand this project as an annual event. And we plan to grow it in an =rganic way, by inviting the previous year's speakers to return =s kibitzers. Thus, in addition to inviting new speakers for HeadCon =E2 14, we are also inviting back the participants from last year. Confirmed as speakers to date are: SPEAKERS SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE Royal Society University Research Fellow and Full Professor of Cognitive =euroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University =ollege London; Co-author, The Learning Brain. http://edge.org/memberbio/sarah_jayne_blakemore MOLLY CROCKETT Neuroscientist, University College London; Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral =ellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. Studies the neural basis =f human altruism, morality, and value-based decision-making. =ttp://www.mollycrockett.com/ JENNIFER JACQUET Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU, researching =hame, cooperation and the tragedy of the commons; Author: Is Shame =ecessary (forthcoming). http://edge.org/memberbio/jenniferjacquet http://jenniferjacquet.com/ MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, Professor of =sychology, Cooper Fellow, University of Miami; Author, Beyond Revenge: =he Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. httpliedge.orememberbio/michael_mccullough http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/ HUGO MERCIER Cognitive Scientist; Ambizione Fellow, Cognitive Science Center, =niversity of Neuchatel, studying the function and workings of =easoning. http://edge.org/memberbio/hugo_mercier https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/ LAURIE PAUL Professor of Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill, and Professorial Fellow in the =rche Research Centre, University of St Andrews studying =etaphysics and the philosophy of mind. http://www.lapaul.org/ 2 EFTA_R1_02020566 EFTA02688446 DAVE RAND Assistant Professor of Psychology, Economics, and Management, Yale and =irector, Yale's Human Cooperation laboratory, researching theoretical =nd experimental methods associated with cooperation. http://davidrand-cooperation.com/ SIMONE SCHNALL Psychologist; Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion =aboratory; University Senior Lecturer, Cambridge httpliedge.orememberbio/simone_schnall http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected] Among last year's speakers returning as "kibitzers"=are: FIERY CUSHMAN Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown. http://edge.org/memberbio/fiery_cushman JUNE GRUBER Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Positive Emotion & =sychopatology Lab, Yale . http://edge.org/memberbio/june_gruber JOSHUA KNOBE Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and =ognitive Science, Yale. http://edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe DAVID PIZARRO Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell, specializing in moral =udgment. http://edge.org/memberbio/david_pizarro LAURIE SANTOS Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative =ognition Laboratory, Yale. http://edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos The event is at Eastover Farm in Bethlehem, CT (90 miles from NYC). On =riday night, September 5th, we have a group reservation at Heritage =otel in Soutbury CT, 11 miles from the farm. A high-end, five-star =esort, The Mayflower Inn, is also nearby. Here's the rough schedule: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH 5:00pm Cocktails at Eastover Farm 7:00pm Dinner at Woodward House (2 miles from farm) http://www.thewoodwardhouse.com/The_Woodward_House/Home.html SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH 7:00am Breakfast at Heritage Hotel Check out of hotel 8:00am Cars depart to Eastover Farm 8:30am - 12:30 talks 12:30pm - 2:00 lunch 2:30pm - 6:30 talks 6:30pm Dinner at Woodward House 8:30pm Ends 3 EFTA_R1_02020567 EFTA02688447 When I telephoned the great biologist Ernst Mayr (the "Darwin of the =0th Century") on his hundredth birthday, he first turned down my =equest to write a piece for EDGE ("Much too busy; my plate is =ull), and then, he noted that "EDGE is a conversation." And =ike any conversation, it is evolving. And what a conversation it is! I very much hope you can join us. Best, JB The Heritage Hotel 522 Heritage Rd Southbury, CT 06488 http://www.heritagesouthbury.com/ Map: http://bit.ly/1vUC83l Directions I Heritage Hotel to Eastover Farm (11.7 miles): =ttp://bit.ly/VtiLxy ~MI John Brockman mobile r.s.v.p. to Edge Foundation, Inc. tel: 260 Fifth Avenue fax: New York, NY 10001 Visit EDGE at: http://www.edge.org =?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1409261537</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>7</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>435298</string> </dict> </plist> 4 EFTA_R1_02020568 EFTA02688448