Franks, Bradley


Dr Bradley Franks  

Department

Position held

Institute of Social Psychology

Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology

Experience keywords:

cognitive science; word meaning; natural language; concepts

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Mind and culture, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, philosophical psychology, concepts and categorisation, communication, and philosophical issues in psychology

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7704

Publications

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2011

Franks, Bradley (2011) Culture and cognition: evolutionary perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230008892

Franks, Bradley and Dhesi, Japinder (2011) Evolution and communication. In: Hook, Derek and Franks, Bradley and Bauer, Martin W., (eds.) Social psychology of communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 229-248. ISBN 9780230247369

Franks, Bradley and Attia, Sharon (2011) Rumours and gossip as genres of communication. In: Hook, Derek and Franks, Bradley and Bauer, Martin W., (eds.) Social psychology of communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 169-186. ISBN 9780230247369

Franks, Bradley and Green, Helen A. (2011) Pragmatic theory and social relations. In: Hook, Derek and Franks, Bradley and Bauer, Martin W., (eds.) Social psychology of communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 107-126. ISBN 9780230247369

Hook, Derek and Franks, Bradley and Bauer, Martin W., (eds.) (2011) The social psychology of communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230247369

2005

Franks, Bradley (2005) The role of 'the environment' in cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Philosophical psychology, 18 (1). pp. 59-82. ISSN 0951-5089

Franks, Bradley and Rigby, Kate (2005) Deception and mate selection: some implications for relevance and the evolution of language. In: Tallerman, Maggie, (ed.) Language origins: perspectives on evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 185-208. ISBN 0199279047

2004

Franks, Bradley (2004) Negation and doubt in religious representations : context-dependence, emotion and action. Evolution and cognition, 10 (1). pp. 74-86. ISSN 0938-2623

2003

Franks, Bradley (2003) The nature of unnaturalness in religious representations : negation and concept combination. Journal of cognition and culture, 3 (1). pp. 41-68. ISSN 1567-7095

1999

Franks, Bradley (1999) Idealizations, competence and explanation: a response to Patterson. British journal for the philosophy of science, 50 (4). pp. 735-746. ISSN 0007-0882

1996

Braisby, Nick and Franks, Bradley and Hampton, James (1996) Essentialism, word use, and concepts. Cognition, 59 (3). pp. 247-274. ISSN 0010-0277

1995

Franks, Bradley (1995) Sense generation : a 'quasi-classical' approach to concepts and concept combination. Cognitive science, 19 (4). pp. 441-506. ISSN 0364-0213

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