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Dr Paulo Sousa is Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC) and Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Anthropology. He holds a BA and a MA in anthropology (University of Brasilia, Brazil), a MA in cognitive science (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), and a PhD in anthropology with specialization in cognition and culture (University of Michigan, USA). He has participated in many cross-cultural projects and published numerous articles in the field of cognition and culture. He also applied an epidemiological approach to the history of ideas of anthropology that stimulated a major controversy. His current research interests focus on agency, moral psychology and inter-group conflict as well as their relation to religion. He is currently writing a book on how ordinary people conceptualize the relationship between harm and morality.
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Culpability and liability in the law of homicide: do lay moral intuitions accord with legal distinctions?
Sousa, P. & Lavery, G., 18 May 2023, Advances in experimental philosophy of law. Prochownik, K. & Magen, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic, p. 99-132 31 p. (Advances in Experimental Philosophy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Minimal criteria for an impurity domain of morality
Piazza, J. & Sousa, P., 01 Jun 2023, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27, 6, p. 514-516 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Folk Moral Objectivism: The Case of Harmful Actions
Sousa, P., Allard, A., Piazza, J. & Goodwin, G. P., 28 Jul 2021, (Early online date) In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 638515.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Ship of Theseus puzzle
Rose, D., Machery, E., Stich, S., Alai, M., Angelucci, A., Berniūnas, R., Buchtel, E. E., Chatterjee, A., Cheon, H., Cho, I-R., Cohnitz, D., Cova, F., Dranseika, V., Eraña Lagos, A., Grinberg, M., Hannikainen, I., Hashimoto, T., Horowitz, A., Hristova, E., Jraissati, Y., & 24 others, 09 Apr 2020, Oxford studies in experimental philosophy. Lombrozo, T., Knobe, J. & Nichols, S. (eds.). Oxford University Press, Vol. 3. p. 158-174Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Why divination? Less bad than...
Sousa, P., 2020, In: Current Anthropology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Culture & Cognition graduate fellowship
Sousa, Paulo (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Culture & Cognition graduate fellowship
Sousa, Paulo (Recipient), 1998
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Culture & Cognition graduate fellowship
Sousa, Paulo (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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AERC seminar, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Paulo Sousa (Speaker)
12 Apr 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Moral Psychology: Poverty and Climate, University of Sheffield, UK
Paulo Sousa (Participant)
18 May 2015 → 20 May 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Seminar, Cognitive Science Centre, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Paulo Sousa (Invited speaker)
05 May 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Symposium: Universal moral values, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Nerderlands
Paulo Sousa (Invited speaker)
20 Mar 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Workshop "Does ought imply can?" (Institute of Cognition and Culture)
Paulo Sousa (Participant)
2015 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course