{"id":430,"date":"2014-01-16T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=430"},"modified":"2023-01-11T18:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:34:15","slug":"this-years-edge-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/hugo-mercier\/this-years-edge-question\/","title":{"rendered":"This year’s Edge question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new The Edge annual question, and the answers, are now online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The question was: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?”<\/p>\n

Here are some answers that could be relevant to the ICCI crowd:<\/p>\n

Oliver Scott Curry Associationism<\/a><\/p>\n

N.J. Enfield A Science of Language Should Be Concerned Only With ‘Competence’<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Griffiths Bias is Always Bad<\/a><\/p>\n

Laura Betzig Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Atran IQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Rob Kurzban Cartesian Hydrolicism<\/a><\/p>\n

Pascal Boyer Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Dan Sperber The Standard Approach To Meaning<\/a><\/p>\n

Jon Haidt The Pursuit of Parsimony<\/a><\/p>\n

John Tooby Learning And Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve Pinker Behavior = Genes + Environment<\/a><\/p>\n

Dan Dennett The Hard Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

Nick Humphreys The Bigger An Animal’s Brain, The Greater Its Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Laurie Santos & Tamar Gendler Knowing is Half the Battle<\/a><\/p>\n

David Berreby People Are Sheep<\/a><\/p>\n

Benjamin K. Bergen Universal Grammar<\/a><\/p>\n

Kiley Hamlin Moral Blank State-ism<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s my take<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new The Edge annual question, and the answers, are now online. The question was: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?” Here are some answers that could be relevant to the ICCI crowd: Oliver Scott Curry Associationism N.J. Enfield A Science of Language Should Be Concerned Only With ‘Competence’ Tom Griffiths Bias is Always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis year's Edge question - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/hugo-mercier\/this-years-edge-question\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This year's Edge question - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The new The Edge annual question, and the answers, are now online. 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