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RPML Lunch Seminar: Antonio Scarafone – Infant pointing as commitment sharing

28 June 2023 @ 12:30 - 13:30

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Dear all, Next Wednesday, June 28th (12.30-13.30), Antonio Scarafone will give a lunch seminar presentation titled “Infant pointing as commitment sharing”. Antonio Scarafone is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition, Values, Behaviour and Crowd Cognition research groups at LMU Munich. You can find the abstract of the presentation below. This meeting will again take place in E15.39/41, or alternatively you can join via Zoom: https://radbouduniversity.zoom.us/j/84273872756?pwd=UDFETEE0L2hJS1ptZDR3aXNXK2hPQT09. All the best, Nina It is possible to point to any feature of the surrounding…
Dear all, Next Wednesday, June 28th (12.30-13.30), Antonio Scarafone will give a lunch seminar presentation titled “Infant pointing as commitment sharing”. Antonio Scarafone is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition, Values, Behaviour and Crowd Cognition research groups at LMU Munich. You can find the abstract of the presentation below. This meeting will again take place in E15.39/41, or alternatively you can join via Zoom: https://radbouduniversity.zoom.us/j/84273872756?pwd=UDFETEE0L2hJS1ptZDR3aXNXK2hPQT09. All the best, Nina It is possible to point to any feature of the surrounding environment for any sort of reason. Infants are proficient pointers, but how do they reason their way to the communicated content? In this talk, I present a commitment-based account of infant pointing, in the tradition of normative pragmatics. I defend it against popular “intentionalist” accounts, which explain infant pointing in terms of capacities for reasoning about intentions and beliefs. I argue that intentionalism takes things back to front, and I show how the commitment-based account can reverse the order of explanation, while doing better justice to the experimental findings. Upcoming presentations until the summer break:
  • 5 July: Anco Peeters, t.b.a.

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Date:
28 June 2023
Time:
12:30 - 13:30

Dear all,

Next Wednesday, June 28th (12.30-13.30), Antonio Scarafone will give a lunch seminar presentation titled “Infant pointing as commitment sharing”. Antonio Scarafone is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition, Values, Behaviour and Crowd Cognition research groups at LMU Munich. You can find the abstract of the presentation below.

This meeting will again take place in E15.39/41, or alternatively you can join via Zoom: https://radbouduniversity.zoom.us/j/84273872756?pwd=UDFETEE0L2hJS1ptZDR3aXNXK2hPQT09.

All the best,

Nina

It is possible to point to any feature of the surrounding environment for any sort of reason. Infants are proficient pointers, but how do they reason their way to the communicated content? In this talk, I present a commitment-based account of infant pointing, in the tradition of normative pragmatics. I defend it against popular “intentionalist” accounts, which explain infant pointing in terms of capacities for reasoning about intentions and beliefs. I argue that intentionalism takes things back to front, and I show how the commitment-based account can reverse the order of explanation, while doing better justice to the experimental findings.

Upcoming presentations until the summer break:

  • 5 July: Anco Peeters, t.b.a.

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