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The School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the following Expanding Minds WIP Showcase. All are very much welcome and there is no need to RSVP. Hope to see you there. Best wishes, Elena -- *EXPANDING MINDS RESEARCH SERIES* Work-In-Progress Showcase Tuesday, 23 April 2024 *Dr. Ron Planer* University of Wollongong *Gricean Metacommunication* 15.00-16.00 In the view of many theorists, Grice’s model of communication offers an intuitively correct characterization of the normal form of human communication. At the same time, it promises to explain some of the most striking features of human communication, such as its expressive richness and flexibility. This has made Grice’s model of special interest to those working on the evolution of human communication and language. And yet, Grice’s model is not without problems. In particular, it has been seen as too cognitively demanding to be a good general model of human communication. In reply, several ways of attempting to finesse the cognitive demands of Gricean communication have grown up in the literature. This article considers three such approaches in light of the phenomenon of human metacommunication. As I explain, metacommunication has been all but absent from foundational discussions of Gricean communication. This is surprising, as metacommunication is a central feature of human communication, including that which very young children engage in. It is argued that metacommunication undermines all but one of these approaches to defending Grice’s model of communication. *Dr. Ian Robertson* Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg *Being and Timing: Habitual behaviours as the basis of skilled performance* 16.00-17.00 In this talk, I consider the famed Dreyfus and Dreyfus model of skilled embodied coping—on which skilled performance, at its pinnacle, unfolds without implicating mental representations of any kind—and defend it against recent caricatures. I then turn to examine the role it assigns to habitual behaviours as a basis for fluid sensorimotor adjustment. Finally, I consider two genuine problems for the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model, both pertaining to content, and suggest that it has the resources to overcome them. There is a short conclusion, where I consider some implications for the Dreyfus and Dreyfus view for explainable AI. Research Hub, 19-2072 University of Wollongong Wollongong Campus All are welcome. This is an in-person event. There is no registration fee and no need to RSVP. The* Expanding Minds Research Series,* hosted by the School of Liberal Arts, is a platform for academics based at and visiting the University of Wollongong to share their latest and ongoing research and scholarship. -- *Dr. Elena Walsh* Lecturer School of Liberal Arts Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19 University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia *T *+61 2 4220 5692 *W *elenawalsh.squarespace.com
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