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Welcome to the ECOM Webpage!
The "Expressive Communication and Origins of Meaning" (ECOM) research group has recently been established by Dorit Bar-On as part of a 3-year NSF grant [award #0925896] for collaborative research received in 2009 by Dorit Bar-On and Mitchell Green. Members of ECOM have worked on different aspects of the NSF-project while collaborating and contributing to its central themes.
To learn more about who we are and the work we do, visit our members page, our research page, and our list of publications.
We are hoping to expand ECOM in the near future so as to create a Research Collab: a humanities analogue of the science research lab, which will begin working on a large-scale project exploring phylogenetic and developmental origins of mind, linguistic meaningfulness, and moral discourse. This project is tentatively titled “Origins of Mind, Meaning, and Morals” (OMMM). For more information, please visit here.
Recent ECOM News:
| August 29th, 2011 | ECOM will be hosting a Speaker Series
during the upcoming academic year! We have invited researchers from
Linguistics, Philosophy, and Evolutionary Biology to speak on the nature
and origins of meaning. See more information here. |
| August 20th, 2011 | Dorit Bar-On and Mitchell Greene have organized a Protolanguage Workshop to be hosted at the University of Virginia. Ruth Millikan (UConn) will be the Keynote Speaker. More information coming soon. |
| August 2nd, 2011 | The first product of an ECOM collaboration,
"Triangulation and the Beasts" by Dorit Bar-On and Matthew Priselac, has
just appeared in print -- see book cover. |
For a complete list of past news and future events, click here.
