Thom Scott-Phillips

@tscottphillips

I study what makes us human • Scientist • Philosopher • Humanist • Dancer • Author, ‘Speaking Our Minds' • Articles in , , etc • Based

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2012.

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    New paper: "The Art Experience". In which we argue that artworks and art galleries function by exploiting the cognitive mechanisms usually involved in ordinary, day-to-day communication. I love this paper! A thread. 1/14

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  2. 29. sij

    I went to the exhibition. Was very good, but I recommend reading the book first if you can. It made the exhibition very evocative. cc

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  3. 26. sij
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    Evolution of human communication. How, conceivably?

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  5. 25. sij

    Previously Tauzin & Gergely pioneered the 'flat fish' studies, which show (among other things) that infants infer meaning by presuming the relevance of communicative stimuli.

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  6. 25. sij

    Nice study from Tauzin, , Gergely & Call, showing that chimpanzees use different types of point depending on the need to disambiguate.

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  7. 20. sij

    In Vienna for the week, visiting the new campus. Looking forward to it. (And also to seeing some of Vienna!)

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  8. 16. sij

    I haven't checked with Diana, but I expect she plans to challenge the intuitive view that irony, metaphor, etc is somehow 'hard' or more difficult for children that less figurative language use.

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  9. 16. sij
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  10. 11. sij

    I'll be in Vienna the week after next. Was just looking up things to do, and there's an exhibition bringing to life the very book I'm reading at the moment! Very much looking forward to it! Book is really good btw. Highly recommended

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  11. 10. sij

    This is why I would join the Democrats and vote for Warren if I was an American. It's the approach I'd like to see the British left take, although sadly I don't see much evidence that anybody there is thinking in these terms.

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  12. 10. sij

    Just re-reading Levinson on the human "interaction engine". The quote I've highlighted is spot on.

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  13. 10. sij

    "Convergent transformation can, as much as faithful copying, bring about cultural stability. Explaining the diffusion of a trait with 'culture'... is to assume what requires itself an explanation." Yes, exactly!

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  14. 9. sij

    Yes! It's not ok to talk about whole groups in terms of the corrosive characteristics of some members We don't stand for this when it's Jews, Muslims, Christians, asians, blacks, whites, etc. Yet it's become somewhat normalised for well-intentioned people talk about men this way

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  15. 9. sij

    Good talk by Lisa Feigenson this morning. Highlighted this paper, "Is Empiricism Innate?". Subtext of the talk & paper: a great deal of our theorising about the mind is biased against nativism. IMO we don't correct enough for this.

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    4. sij

    No, they’re not. Sincerely, a linguist.

    Photo of a museum display claiming that “great apes are good at sign language”
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  17. 2. sij

    When did become advocates of radical social anthropology?

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  18. 2. sij

    This passage, from the opening pages of the novel I just started, is about what happens to small objects when they pass through many hands over the years. Reminds me very much of the scientific literature on transmission chain experiments.

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  19. 2. sij

    Anybody in Edinburgh, this looks really interesting. I’d go for sure if I was there.

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  20. Today we call them “influencers” but in the 1930s they were called “apostles of modernity”. From this fascinating book about the origins of swing, which was apparently closely tied to the beginnings of modernity.

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    Right, indeed. So emotions – like almost everything in human lives! – are partly constructed but also partly constrained by biology & core cognition. This picture is becoming clearer and clearer, almost by the week. I hope I can do it justice in the book I'm trying to write!

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