Associate Professor 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 Professional Topic: History and Theory of Psychology
Research interests
Research interests are 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). Currently investigating childrens' acquisition and comprehension of logical concepts and principles.
Supervision Areas
Representative Publications
Books
Khlentzos, D. (2011). Challenges to Metaphysical Realism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ed Zalta (ed)
Khlentzos, D. (2010). Realism. A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, 483-487, Monash University Publishing.
Khlentzos, D. (2007). Antirealist assumptions and challenges in philosophy of mind. Mental States (vol.1): Evolution, function, nature SLCS 92, John Benjamins, 213-232.
Khlentzos, D. (2004). Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge. ‘Representation and Mind’ series, Bradford Books, M.I.T. Press.
Journal Articles
Khlentzos, D. (2011). Semantic Entanglement. Philosophy Study, 1(4), 265-274.
Crain, S., & Khlentzos, D. (2010). The Logic Instinct. Mind and Language, 25(1), 30-65.
Crain, S., Khlentzos, D., & Thornton, R. (2010). Universal Grammar versus Linguistic Diversity. Lingua, 120, 2668-2672.
Crain, S., Khlentzos, D., & Thornton, R. (2009). The case of the missing generalizations. Cognitive Linguistics, 20(1), 145-155.
Crain, S., & Khlentzos, D. (2008). Is Logic Innate?. Biolinguistics, 2(1), 24-56
Conference Papers
Khlentzos, D. (2010). In Defence of Nativism. Proceedings of 9th Conference of Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney.
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