Dan Harris

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

More important data for subway metaphysics. We should inform Myrtle Willoughby. philarchive.org/archive/WILS...

CHAD SOPHIST Polus has FALLEN in the rankings after being THOUGHT MOGGED by THINKMAXXER Socrates, who argues it is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one, causing Polus to CRASH OUT in front of the Athenian orators

As the last several decades of the scientific realism/antirealism debate have taught us, nothing is more clear and determinate than what counts as an observation.

#philosophy #philsky

It has always read to me as a kind of play-by-play.

Here's the paper, in case anyone still wants to read it: danielwharris.com/papers/Danie...

After a quick five years living Online First, my paper, "Intentionalism and Bald-Faced Lies" has been assigned to Volume 69, Issue 2 at Inquiry. I took this occasion to re-read it, and discovered this typo, which is a pretty solid candidate for a Freudian slip.

At least most of the papers aren’t more than 70 or 80 pages.

New indeterminacy just dropped.

Hearing Pablo Torre’s theme music start pumping after Thi makes some subtle point about the nature of value (and not after the latest revelation about Kawhi Leonard’s uncle’s shady real-estate transaction) is surreal.

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!

But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

I only drink Joyce water.

Using these ideas we show how to generalize Grice's theory of implicature, Craige Roberts' QUD model, and Stalnaker's theory of common ground to genres beyond the ones for which they were originally formulated.

We consider four orthogonal kinds of genre variation as case studies: informative vs. practical, committal vs. exploratory, factual vs. make-believe, and cooperative vs. adversarial. Each, we argue, boils down to an independent kind of variation in conversation plans.

We understand the genre of a conversation as a type of conversation plan—a plan about what to do in the conversation. Genres steer us toward certain kinds of speech acts by exerting pressure to make our communicative intentions fit the conversation plan.

Unnsteinsson Elmar & Harris Daniel W., Genre and Conversation - PhilPapers Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some ...

Elmar Unnsteinsson (@eunnsteins.bsky.social) and I have a new paper forthcoming in Noûs.

"Genre and Conversation"

We show how to generalize the classic pragmatic theories to conversational genres that aren't factual, cooperative, committal information exchanges.

philpapers.org/rec/ELMGAC-2

Counterexample!

True non-beliefs.

Yes and also just a very small sample of newsworthy cases, plus maybe a tendency for news orgs to overreport on the AI they have heard of.

Mostly base rate maybe?

Official rule is to “respond *in the form of* a question.” Those Jeopardy people know what they’re doing.

I think Stalnaker/Portner/Roberts/Karen Lewis on dynamic pragmatics is likewise in the neighborhood.

If you construe “pragmatics” more widely, then I think there’s a long history of people setting things up roughly this way.

hrcak.srce.hr/file/137202

We’re not allowed to have h-indices are we?

Who is writing about this supernatural thing as opposed to the legal/social-institutional thing?

More like somebody should hit something.

lol

Yeah this exact thing made me feel indignant about the charge that analytic philosophy has a problem with unnecessary formal notation that does more harm than good. I mean, yes, but also: Marxists heal thyselves!