2014-15心理学每周论坛之1：Trying Not to Try: Cooperation, Trust and the Paradox of Spontaneity

报告人： Prof. Edward Slingerland （森舸瀾）

讲座题目：Trying Not to Try: Cooperation, Trust and the Paradox of Spontaneity

时间：2014年9月10 日14:30—16:30

地点：中山大学东校区教学楼C202

报告人单位：不列颠哥伦比亚大学

组织单位：心理学系

报告人简介：

Edward Slingerland本科毕业于斯坦福大学，并在该校获得博士学位，现为加拿大University of British Columbia亚洲研究系教授，人类进化、认知和文化研究中心（Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture） 联席主任 。他的研究专长包括战国思想、认知语言学、道德心理学以及人文与自然科学之间的关系等。Slingerland教授的背景是中国哲学，但在认知科学的哲学问题研究上取得了卓越成就，在哲学和心理学主流期刊上（如Ethics, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Philosophy East & West, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Religious Ethics, Religion Brain & Behaviour, 和 Religion等）发表了系列论文。他的专著包括Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity (Crown, 2014)， Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China (Oxford U Press 2003), the Analects of Confucius (Hackett Publishing Company 2003), What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body & Culture (Cambridge U Press 2008), 以及Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and Humanities (co-edited with Mark Collard, Oxford U Press 2011)等。2013年，Slingerland教授获得了加拿大社会科学与人文研究理事会3百万加元资助以研究信仰和道德的形成与发展。

讲座简介：

Many early Chinese thinkers had as their spiritual ideal the state of wu-wei, or effortless action. By advocating spontaneity as an explicit moral and religious goal, they inevitably involved themselves in the paradox of wu-wei—the problem of how one can try not to try—which later became one of the central tensions in East Asian religious thought. In this talk, I will look at the paradox from both an early Chinese and a contemporary perspective, drawing upon work in social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and evolutionary theory to argue that this paradox is a real one, and is moreover intimately tied up with problems surrounding cooperation in large-scale societies and concerns about moral hypocrisy.