Drew Khlentzos
Associate Professor and Director, Language and Cognition Research Centre, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Hons.) Macquarie University; BSc. University of Sydney; Ph.D Australian National University
Contact
| Email: | dkhlentz@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Psychology - North Wing (S7) Room G2 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3208 (or +61 2 6773 3208 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3820 |
Areas of Teaching
BCSS 100 Judgment and Decision-Making
PSYC 4th year History and Theory of Psychology
Research interests
My research is in logic and semantics, psychology of reasoning, language acquisition and conceptual and methodological questions in cognitive science. Together with researchers at the Australian Research Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD). I am currently investigating childrens' acquisition and comprehension of logical concepts and principles.
Research Project
The Emergence of Logic in Child Language ARC Discovery Project 2010 - 2014
Chief Investigators: Prof. Stephen Crain, CCD Macquarie University [project leader]; Dr Blake Johnson, CCD Macquarie University, A/Prof. Drew Khlentzos, UNE
Partner Investigators: Prof. Ovid Tzeng Academica Sinica Taiwan; Prof. Thomas Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prof. Liquan Gao Beijing Language and Cultural University.
External Appointments
Adjunct Professor Beijing Language and Cultural University
Associate Investigator Australian Research Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Recent Publications
“Semantic Entanglement” Drew Khlentzos, 2011, Philosophy Study vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 265-274.
“The Logic Instinct” Stephen Crain and Drew Khlentzos, 2010, Mind and Language Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 30-65.
“Universal Grammar versus Linguistic Diversity” Stephen Crain, Drew Khlentzos, Rosalind Thornton 2010 Lingua 120, pp. 2668-2672.
“The case of the missing generalizations”, Stephen Crain, Rosalind Thornton, Drew Khlentzos 2009 Cognitive Linguistics, Vol.20, Issue 1, pp.145-155.
“Is Logic Innate?” Stephen Crain and Drew Khlentzos, 2008, Biolinguistics vol.2, no.1, pp.24-56
“Challenges to Metaphysical Realism” Drew Khlentzos, 2011, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ed Zalta (ed)
“In Defence of Nativism” Drew Khlentzos, 2010 in ASCS09: Proceedings of 9th Conference of Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney.
“Realism” Drew Khlentzos, 2010 in A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, pp. 483-487 Monash University Publishing.
“Antirealist assumptions and challenges in philosophy of mind” Drew Khlentzos in Mental States (vol.1): Evolution, function, nature SLCS 92, John Benjamins 2007, pp. 213-232.
Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge Drew Khlentzos, ‘Representation and Mind’ series, Bradford Books, M.I.T. Press, 2004.