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From cognitive science and evolutionary work on communication, Thom Scott-Phillips brings a new proposal to a classic debate on linguistic intuitions and grammar—linking judgments of “oddness” to communicative relevance.
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We are organizing a @ceusummer university course w/ @tscottphillips on the Human Mind and Open Society, with a special focus on political intuitions & stellar guest faculty: @markvanvugt1 @kmcaulif1 @RuedenChris & Lou Safra!
Pls share the news!
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The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers. cognitionandculture.net/inde…
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"Many approaches to language, especially but not only those in the generative tradition, have long sought a minimal set of general principles that underpin linguistic intuitions."
What are the best overt statements to this effect?
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Are you a biologist working with non-human species? We are interested in finding out more on how similar or different to humans you perceive certain species to be! nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo… (approved by local ethics committee, make sure you read the first page) @asab_org @eseb_org
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Fun piece by Charles Goodhart on why and how Rachel Reeves could use a land tax to fill that black hole everyone keeps talking about: ft.com/content/a3ee952d-ff42…
I understand that Durkheim presented arguments and some basic/initial data that suicide was a phenomenon distinct to conditions of modernity.
Do we know if this hypothesis is right? What do modern data and analyses say?
"Many approaches to language, especially but not only those in the generative tradition, have long sought a minimal set of general principles that underpin linguistic intuitions."
What are the best overt statements to this effect?
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i unironically love "post it on arxiv and if it's good people will share it" as a replacement model for publishing
peer review is implicit in the discussion/circulation of the paper w/o needless reviewer 2 gatekeeping
we have the internet and do not need publishers any more
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Precisely this
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In the just lauched Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu/open-encycloped…), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors oecs.mit.edu/pub/mfsrxxgb
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everyone's looking, but no one knows what to look for
"An overly narrow epistemology... holds back our field... Research focused on empirical data is viewed as more revealing of the nature of the mind/brain relative to research developing explanations of cognitive capacities"
Completely agree, @MattGoldrick
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"An overly narrow epistemology... holds back our field... Research focused on empirical data is viewed as more revealing of the nature of the mind/brain relative to research developing explanations of cognitive capacities"
Completely agree, @MattGoldrick
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
How deliberation and dialogue facilitate good group decision making.
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Our Citizens’ White Paper, produced in collaboration with @involveUK, sets out why, when and how the government could embed citizen involvement in national policy making to tackle the complex and potentially divisive challenges facing our country.
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Excellent article, thank you!
Reflecting on your conclusion: By "most of Britain's problems", do you mean the dominance of capital over labour, and the consequent wealth inequality? That seems to me to be tacit in the article, but I wasn't sure.
Really frustrated how BBC coverage is saying the 24 team format is why Ukraine are going out with 4 points. That's not true at all!
In a 16 or 32 team format, both Ukraine and Slovakia would be out with 4 points! 24 team format is nothing to do with it.
cc @GaryLineker
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