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Expectation loops
Seminar on Language and Communication
Many social phenomena are effectively 'universal', but are unlikely to be 'innate' parts of the human mind. Examples include symbols, norms, basic technologies, linguistic constructions, and notions of commitment, ownership and responsibility. Where do these things come from? More broadly, how do the interactions of many individuals generate the building blocks of society and culture? I will introduce and provide examples of 'Expectation loops', in which the expectations that individuals have about others are self-reinforcing. Armed with the notion of an expectation loop, we can trace causal links from the design of the human mind to the structure of society.
Thom Scott-Phillips
ILCLI - Ikerbasque
VIDEOS
![Mixel Aurnague, "A semantic framework for the analysis of motion expression in French" [15-05-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zi2vOMAIxe4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Heidi Maibon, "How to think about co-experienced emotions" [07-02-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0HWVS7-E2Hw/hqdefault.jpg)
![Miguel Ángel Sebastián, "Perspectival Information and the Knowledge Argument" [11-01-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ppCEnWxJxZg/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Valentina Petrolini, "Diagnosis and Identity: Disentangling the Relationship" [29-11-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bS9vPTjw_Ig/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Peter Hanks, "Acts of Address and Acts of Reference" [11-08-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KH-lQamLoaw/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Peter Pagin, "Conceptual change and communication" [11-08-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ooFN_w0F9A4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Irati Zubia, "On bullshit: How can indifference toward truth be characterized?" [10-19-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ewuzMK7Bbd4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Shannon Bain, "Reflexive Content, Use Conditions, and Modal Normativism." [8-03-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtG1yNXnczo/maxresdefault.jpg)
The research group on Language, Action, and Thought ---at the Institute of Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI)--- mostly focuses on the Philosophy of Language and Mind as well as on the Philosophy of Action. Most of its members are philosophers but it also includes linguists, psychologists and logicians.
An important part of our research has evolved around Critical Pragmatics, a theory created and developed by some of us, with applications to the study of linguistic communication, and important assumptions and implications about thought and action.
During the last decade, we have received several grants from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Basque Government and the Government of Spain.
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