Saturday, November 19, 2016
What makes us musical animals?
Saturday, November 12, 2016
The Next Big Thing? [Dutch]
Zie www.uva.nl/iis-colleges voor meer informatie.
Zie NRC Academie om te registreren.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Interested in a PhD in the Humanities at ILLC?
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) can nominate two candidates for a pre-selection procedure for the 2017 edition of NWO's PhDs in the Humanities programme. These could be internal UvA candidates from the MA Musicology, MSc Brain and Cognitive Science or any other relevant Master Programme, but excellent outside candidates will be considered as well.
For the internal ILLC selection, candidates should submit the following documents:
- a brief (max 1 page A4) description of the proposed research, including the name of the proposed supervisor and promotor;
- a CV of the candidate. These documents should be submitted by e-mail to the ILLC office: illc@uva.nl.
Friday, November 04, 2016
Is music a supernormal stimulus?
Fragment of an interview of Richard Dawkins with Steven Pinker for the documentary series The Genius of Charles Darwin (UK Channel 4 Television, 2008). Pinker explains again why music is not an adaptation, but should be seen as a kind of 'supernormal stimulus' - adding the phrase people in music hate this theory....
For a full one hour of uncut footage see here.
Honing, H. (2011). Muziek is geen luxe... maar wat dan wel? Academische Boekengids, 88, 2-4.
Honing, H. (2012). If music isn’t a luxury, what is it? Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 5 (1), 114-117 DOI: 10.1386/jmte.5.1.109_5.
For a full one hour of uncut footage see here.
Honing, H. (2011). Muziek is geen luxe... maar wat dan wel? Academische Boekengids, 88, 2-4.
Honing, H. (2012). If music isn’t a luxury, what is it? Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 5 (1), 114-117 DOI: 10.1386/jmte.5.1.109_5.
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