Can we (please) have science without the scientific journals?
We had science before the journals. We can have science after their demise.
Science could be organized as efficiently as restaurants.
When enterprising individuals plan to open a restaurant, do they submit their food to a Culinary Editor who sends it for peer-review by gustatory experts, before ...
How the Color Game’s players mastered the game
The posts on this blog explore the digital life of the Color Game, a gaming app launched by our lab (www.shh.mpg.de/94549/themintgroup). Our goal: documenting the evolution of a new language without words, and recording its birth in data. To find out more, visit colorgame.net.
Some newcomers to ...
“All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump seem now set to meet, as planned, on the 12th of June on the island of Singapore. Many of us have watched with bewilderment the verbal jousting that has been taking place between the two figures ahead of this crucial summit. ...
“All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
By Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy
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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump seem now set to meet, as planned, on the 12th of June on the island of Singapore. Many of us have watched with bewilderment the verbal jousting that has been taking place between the two figures ahead of this crucial summit. ...
Are human toddlers unable to understand the aspectuality of a puppet’s belief that the bunny is not a carrot?
In an earlier post, I spelled out what philosophers and psychologists of mindreading call “the aspectuality of belief.” To understand the aspectuality of belief is to understand that a person can believe that Cicero was bald without believing that Tully was, if she does not know that Tully was ...