[Philosophy of Social Cognition] A Signal Group, Conferences and Links!

[Martyna Meyer]

Dear all,

I hope you’re doing well! I know I promised no more emails, but there are good reasons for this one :)


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1. Firstly, I am sharing a message from Flavia:


Hello everyone!

As we have officially finished yesterday, I have two more suggestions! I am opening a signal messaging group for those who want to stay in touch and engage in informal activities (aka Biergarten, Stadtwanderwege and Ale Donau Hangouts) during the impossibly long and hot Viennese summer break. 

Here is a link.  Just click it and you are in!

https://signal.group/#CjQKIJDNvnSdmGb-KHNzt7DLEZPrOXwbsxAz6z_25L-XsL_KEhCIsxGDn8w6DfC-aEng1mNR

Secondly, I have entirely forgotten that many of you might be interested in talks at the JAM conference that takes place next week (Mon to We) in Budapest.  https://somby.ceu.edu/jam The themes move from research on action coordination and various types of cooperative cognition/communication to fun applied topics, such as HCI or robotics or arts. 

Student participation costs 50 euros. I think spots for the conference dinner are already filled up, but apart from that I believe you still might come see the talks. The registration link is on. In case you think you have not managed to register, write them here directly  jam9in2023 at gmail.com, or let me know, and I ask our lab managers if they might still let you in.

The conference takes place only once in two years, so it might be worth a try! Also, you‘ ll meet me and Tiam there.

Wishing everyone a lovely end of the week!
Best
Flavia



(Many thanks, Flav! And a Signal group is an excellent idea)

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2. A message from Peter regarding GPT-3 and the False-Belief Task:


In case you aren't already aware of it: This article addresses the False Belief Task with GPT-3. (Someone in the social cognition reading group talked about having played with ChatGPT and mindreading.) Maybe this is interesting for the group?

Trott, S., Jones, C., Chang, T., Michaelov, J. and Bergen, B. (2023), Do Large Language Models Know What Humans Know?. Cognitive Science, 47: e13309. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13309

So long,
Peter



Many thanks! This issue was first raised by Jonas and stands in an interesting relation to the paper we read by Tomasello (on JAM).

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3. If you haven’t signed up for the Affordance Lab (our super intense reading group soon), you can do it here: https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/affordancelab

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4. The Forum conference on attention is ongoing. You can take a look at it here: https://wfap.philo.at/conferences/12th-wfap-graduate-conference/ or simply go ahead and join at NIG (still today and tomorrow) — I’m really enjoying it and learning a lot :)

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Thank you and all the best! Have a lovely weekend.
Martyna