Dan Sperber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dan Sperber

French academic

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1942

Place of Birth: Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Profession: psychologist, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dan Sperber (born 20 June 1942 in Cagnes-sur-Mer) is a French social and cognitive scientist.
His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics: developing, with British psychologist Deirdre Wilson, relevance theory in the latter; and an approach to cultural evolution known as the 'epidemiology of representations' in the former.
Sperber currently holds the positions of Directeur de Recherche émérite at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of the International Cognition and Culture Institute.