Thomas C Scott-Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 102986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas C Scott-Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott-Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT-PHILLIPS T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Can cultural evolution bridge scientific continents
The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks
Speaking Our Minds
Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language
Comparisons with the cognition and communication of other species have long informed discussions of the origins and evolution of human communication and language. This research has often focused on similarities and differences with the linguistic code, but more recently there has been an increased focus on the social-cognitive foundations of linguistic communication. However, exactly what these comparisons tell us is not clear because the theoret…
How Darwinian is cultural evolution?
Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progress has involved idealizing away from phenomena that ma…
Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts
Human cooperative communication involves both an informative intention that the recipient understands the content of the signal and also a (Gricean) communicative intention that the recipient recognizes that the speaker has an informative intention. The degree to which children understand this 2-layered nature of communication is the subject of some debate. One phenomenon that would seem to constitute clear evidence of such understanding is hidde…
Joint attention helps explain why children omit new referents
An evolutionary approach to emotional communication
Evolution of Language
Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both ultimate and proximate explanations. Put briefly, ultimate explanations are concerned with why a behavior exists, and proximate explanations are concerned with how it works. These two types of explanation are complementary and the distinction is critical to evolutionary explanation. We are concerned that they have become conflated in some areas of the evolutionary literature on human behavior. …
Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language
Comparisons with the cognition and communication of other species have long informed discussions of the origins and evolution of human communication and language. This research has often focused on similarities and differences with the linguistic code, but more recently there has been an increased focus on the social-cognitive foundations of linguistic communication. However, exactly what these comparisons tell us is not clear because the theoret…
Joint attention helps explain why children omit new referents
Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts
Human cooperative communication involves both an informative intention that the recipient understands the content of the signal and also a (Gricean) communicative intention that the recipient recognizes that the speaker has an informative intention. The degree to which children understand this 2-layered nature of communication is the subject of some debate. One phenomenon that would seem to constitute clear evidence of such understanding is hidde…
An evolutionary approach to emotional communication
Can cultural evolution bridge scientific continents
Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both ultimate and proximate explanations. Put briefly, ultimate explanations are concerned with why a behavior exists, and proximate explanations are concerned with how it works. These two types of explanation are complementary and the distinction is critical to evolutionary explanation. We are concerned that they have become conflated in some areas of the evolutionary literature on human behavior. …
Evolution of Language
Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts
Human cooperative communication involves both an informative intention that the recipient understands the content of the signal and also a (Gricean) communicative intention that the recipient recognizes that the speaker has an informative intention. The degree to which children understand this 2-layered nature of communication is the subject of some debate. One phenomenon that would seem to constitute clear evidence of such understanding is hidde…
Joint attention helps explain why children omit new referents
An evolutionary approach to emotional communication
How Darwinian is cultural evolution?
Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progress has involved idealizing away from phenomena that ma…
The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks
Speaking Our Minds
Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language
Comparisons with the cognition and communication of other species have long informed discussions of the origins and evolution of human communication and language. This research has often focused on similarities and differences with the linguistic code, but more recently there has been an increased focus on the social-cognitive foundations of linguistic communication. However, exactly what these comparisons tell us is not clear because the theoret…
Can cultural evolution bridge scientific continents
Psychology (7 works) · Language and cultural evolution (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)