[Philosophy of Social Cognition] Fourth Meeting

[Martyna Meyer]

Dear all,

Thank you so much for the meeting! This was cool, I really appreciate your inputs :)


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Regarding the next meeting

It will happen on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at NIG (classroom 3B).
The meeting time is 18:30-20:00 (CET). It will be our last meeting before Easter.

You can always join online:

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If you haven’t participated in the precious meetings, feel warmly welcome to join anyway.

We are wrapping up the ToM debate with a text on Folk Psychology. Here is the paper:

Dewhurst, J. (2021). Folk Psychological and Neurocognitive Ontologies (pp. 311–334). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54092-0_14
Access: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347452542_Folk_Psychological_and_Neurocognitive_Ontologies
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Regarding our last discussion
I have some links and notes to share with you (a heartfelt thanks to Philipp and Andreas for taking the time to prepare & share it).

From Philipp: a paper by Michal Kosinski on the emergence of ToM in language models (!): 
Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models <https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2302/2302.02083.pdf>
From Andreas: notes on action-based perspectives & infants

Papers on action planning in foetuses through ultrasound imaging:

Nomikou, I, and K.J. Rohlfing. “Language Does Something: Body Action and Language in Maternal Input to Three-Month-Olds.” IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 3, no. 2 (June 2011): 113–28. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAMD.2011.2140113.

Castiello, Umberto, Cristina Becchio, Stefania Zoia, Cristian Nelini, Luisa Sartori, Laura Blason, Giuseppina D’Ottavio, Maria Bulgheroni, and Vittorio Gallese. “Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction.” PLoS ONE 5, no. 10 (October 2010): e13199. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013199.

there are some ingenious experiments on how newborns use action reviewed here:
Hofsten, Claes von. “An Action Perspective on Motor Development.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8, no. 6 (January 2004): 266–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.04.002.

Andreas: 
My main point was that all their examples of the "action-based" account are not really about actions, but are rather still centred around perception with some potential movements added on. (To be fair the one with the crying baby is a communicative action to have someone else do something...). So the authors kind of work with two hands tied behind their backs there. 

Mark Bickhart's general model is taken from Piaget and is centred around action. I would recommend going back to his 1995 book with Terveen (Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution <https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-97788-000>). 

If your are interested in Alva Noe I could recommend his Action in Perception <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262640633/action-in-perception/>.

(Note from Martyna: If you can’t get full access to the papers/books mentioned (but you’d like to), please write me an email.)
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And a quick Announcement:

If you write to socialcognition.philosophy at univie.ac.at <mailto:socialcognition.philosophy at univie.ac.at>, there is a good chance that you will receive a response from Ms. Alicja Grządziel - a friend & an administrative elf of the reading group. (To Alicja: many, many thanks)

In case of any suggestions/questions/concerns or if you have anything to share with the group, please *do* reach out.
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Have a lovely week & see you soon!

Best,
Martyna
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