Dan Sperber
@dansperber.bsky.social
Excellent:
Modernity In Rhythm open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...
Modernity In Rhythm open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...
Modernity In Rhythm
How migration and technology enabled a special form of togetherness: A multimedia origins story for the lindy hop.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Excellent:
Modernity In Rhythm open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...
Modernity In Rhythm open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to impose meaningful consequences on the Israeli government, including appropriate sanctions, enforcement of ICJ and ICC rulings and warrants, and withholding of arms. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
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October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to impose meaningful consequences on the Israeli government, including appropriate sanctions, enforcement of ICJ and ICC rulings and warrants, and withholding of arms. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Cheyenne Dosso, Tiffany Morisseau, Christophe Heintz, Jean-Sébastien Vayre, A cognitive resource-rational account of epistemic injustice, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2025;, pqaf088, doi.org/10.1093/pq/p...
Preprint in FREE ACCESS at philpapers.org/archive/DOSA...
Preprint in FREE ACCESS at philpapers.org/archive/DOSA...
A cognitive resource-rational account of epistemic injustice
Abstract. We advance a novel account of the cognitive foundations of epistemic injustice. We argue that such injustice arises from the efficient allocation
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October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Cheyenne Dosso, Tiffany Morisseau, Christophe Heintz, Jean-Sébastien Vayre, A cognitive resource-rational account of epistemic injustice, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2025;, pqaf088, doi.org/10.1093/pq/p...
Preprint in FREE ACCESS at philpapers.org/archive/DOSA...
Preprint in FREE ACCESS at philpapers.org/archive/DOSA...
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Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
Reposted by Dan Sperber
Online Now: Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition
Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition
Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. However, this research often overlooks how technology can become so complex that individuals cannot operate it on their own. At this level of technological complexity, distributing cognition is a necessary process for reducing cognitive load on individuals. Yet distributing cognition also imposes coordination costs as technological systems become larger and the individuals in these systems become more specialized. We describe a sprawling set of cultural innovations that facilitate cognitive distribution by reducing cognitive load, reducing coordination costs, or doing both. Preliminary evidence suggests that these cultural innovations co-evolve with technological complexity.
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September 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Online Now: Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition
Reposted by Dan Sperber
An excellent but devastating piece on the Israeli assassination of the brave and beloved Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel
Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
An excellent but devastating piece on the Israeli assassination of the brave and beloved Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel
Reposted by Dan Sperber
“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Is Gaza still a place for newborn life?
10 months after a warning that Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding
from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture.
In the first 6 months of 2025, ...
www.thelancet.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.
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Israel/OPT: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today.
amn.st
August 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.
Read more:
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🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau.bsky.social): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29
Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution
Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively improve technologies in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually exp...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau.bsky.social): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29
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From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?
August 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?
My father, Manès Sperber, told me a story that terribly resonnates today:
In 1420, at a time of persecution known as the "Vienna Gesera", Jews were banned from the city. Many were killed. Others were placed on rudderless boats on the Danube River and left starving.
In 1420, at a time of persecution known as the "Vienna Gesera", Jews were banned from the city. Many were killed. Others were placed on rudderless boats on the Danube River and left starving.
August 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My father, Manès Sperber, told me a story that terribly resonnates today:
In 1420, at a time of persecution known as the "Vienna Gesera", Jews were banned from the city. Many were killed. Others were placed on rudderless boats on the Danube River and left starving.
In 1420, at a time of persecution known as the "Vienna Gesera", Jews were banned from the city. Many were killed. Others were placed on rudderless boats on the Danube River and left starving.
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Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like
In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Dans Marc Bloch, "L'Etrange Défaite" (Ecrit en 1940):
"Je n’ai pas, je crois, l’âme inaccessible à la pitié. Peut-être les spectacles que deux guerres successives m’ont imposés l’ont-ils quelque peu endurcie.
"Je n’ai pas, je crois, l’âme inaccessible à la pitié. Peut-être les spectacles que deux guerres successives m’ont imposés l’ont-ils quelque peu endurcie.
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Dans Marc Bloch, "L'Etrange Défaite" (Ecrit en 1940):
"Je n’ai pas, je crois, l’âme inaccessible à la pitié. Peut-être les spectacles que deux guerres successives m’ont imposés l’ont-ils quelque peu endurcie.
"Je n’ai pas, je crois, l’âme inaccessible à la pitié. Peut-être les spectacles que deux guerres successives m’ont imposés l’ont-ils quelque peu endurcie.
Reposted by Dan Sperber
Is mind-reading involved in ownership judgments?
By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Is mind-reading involved in ownership judgments?
By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dan Sperber
Rashid Khalidi withdraws course on Middle East history, saying it's 'impossible to teach' given adoption of IHRA.
'Columbia's capitulation..is being done to cover up...the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia's leadership is now fully complicit' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Columbia's capitulation..is being done to cover up...the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia's leadership is now fully complicit' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Rashid Khalidi withdraws course on Middle East history, saying it's 'impossible to teach' given adoption of IHRA.
'Columbia's capitulation..is being done to cover up...the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia's leadership is now fully complicit' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Columbia's capitulation..is being done to cover up...the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia's leadership is now fully complicit' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And in the meantime, in the West Bank, Israeli settlers proceed with their own genocidal goals:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank
Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And in the meantime, in the West Bank, Israeli settlers proceed with their own genocidal goals:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
ABOUT SCALARS:
Ira Noveck and I published in 2007 "The why and the how of experimental pragmatics: The case of scalar inferences" in _Advances in Pragmatics_ (N Burton-Roberts ed.), republished in D. Wilson & D. Sperber _Meaning and Relevance_ 2012, as ch 14.
Ira Noveck and I published in 2007 "The why and the how of experimental pragmatics: The case of scalar inferences" in _Advances in Pragmatics_ (N Burton-Roberts ed.), republished in D. Wilson & D. Sperber _Meaning and Relevance_ 2012, as ch 14.
July 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ABOUT SCALARS:
Ira Noveck and I published in 2007 "The why and the how of experimental pragmatics: The case of scalar inferences" in _Advances in Pragmatics_ (N Burton-Roberts ed.), republished in D. Wilson & D. Sperber _Meaning and Relevance_ 2012, as ch 14.
Ira Noveck and I published in 2007 "The why and the how of experimental pragmatics: The case of scalar inferences" in _Advances in Pragmatics_ (N Burton-Roberts ed.), republished in D. Wilson & D. Sperber _Meaning and Relevance_ 2012, as ch 14.
Excellent article: "Tracking minds in communication" by
Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Marlene D.Berke, and
Julian Jara-Ettinger
Open access at pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Marlene D.Berke, and
Julian Jara-Ettinger
Open access at pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
July 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Excellent article: "Tracking minds in communication" by
Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Marlene D.Berke, and
Julian Jara-Ettinger
Open access at pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Marlene D.Berke, and
Julian Jara-Ettinger
Open access at pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
July 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
youtu.be/2AcoQk1u20I?...
An totally out-of-the-ordinary wonderful portuguese film directed by Pedro Pinho: "O riso e a faca", "Le rire et le couteau", "I only sleep in the storm", action taking place in Guinea Bissau, shown at the festival de Cannes, now showing in France.
An totally out-of-the-ordinary wonderful portuguese film directed by Pedro Pinho: "O riso e a faca", "Le rire et le couteau", "I only sleep in the storm", action taking place in Guinea Bissau, shown at the festival de Cannes, now showing in France.
Le Rire et le Couteau | Bande-Annonce | au cinéma le 9 juillet 2025
YouTube video by Météore Films
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July 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
youtu.be/2AcoQk1u20I?...
An totally out-of-the-ordinary wonderful portuguese film directed by Pedro Pinho: "O riso e a faca", "Le rire et le couteau", "I only sleep in the storm", action taking place in Guinea Bissau, shown at the festival de Cannes, now showing in France.
An totally out-of-the-ordinary wonderful portuguese film directed by Pedro Pinho: "O riso e a faca", "Le rire et le couteau", "I only sleep in the storm", action taking place in Guinea Bissau, shown at the festival de Cannes, now showing in France.
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Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
