Stephen Francis Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 8759898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Francis Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4136-8595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An improved metric for estimating morphological information in corpora
The emergence of large, consistently annotated corpora in many languages opens new avenues for linguistic typology by enabling the incorporation of usage-based evidence, including frequency information, into the study of language complexity. Morphological information is one of several facets of language complexity. In this paper, we use morphological feature annotations from the Universal Dependencies (UD) corpora to quantify information carried …
Teleosemantics, Structural Resemblance and Predictive Processing
We propose a pluralist account of content for predictive processing systems. Our pluralism combines Millikan’s teleosemantics with existing structural resemblance accounts. The paper has two goals. First, we outline how a teleosemantic treatment of signal passing in predictive processing systems would work, and how it integrates with structural resemblance accounts. We show that the core explanatory motivations and conceptual machinery of teleose…
Quantifying information in structural representations
The goal of this paper is to show that the information carried by a structural representation can be decomposed into the information carried by its component parts. In particular, the relations between the components of a structural representation carry quantifiable information about the relations between components of their signifieds. It follows that the information carried by cognitive structural representations, including cognitive maps, can …
Teleosemantics and the hard problem of content
Hutto and Myin claim that teleosemantics cannot account for mental content. In their view, teleosemantics accounts for a poorer kind of relation between cognitive states and the world but lacks the theoretical tools to account for a richer kind. We show that their objection imposes two criteria on theories of content: a truth-evaluable criterion and an intensionality criterion. For the objection to go through, teleosemantics must be subject to bo…
Chield
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
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Chield
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
Teleosemantics and the hard problem of content
Hutto and Myin claim that teleosemantics cannot account for mental content. In their view, teleosemantics accounts for a poorer kind of relation between cognitive states and the world but lacks the theoretical tools to account for a richer kind. We show that their objection imposes two criteria on theories of content: a truth-evaluable criterion and an intensionality criterion. For the objection to go through, teleosemantics must be subject to bo…
Quantifying information in structural representations
The goal of this paper is to show that the information carried by a structural representation can be decomposed into the information carried by its component parts. In particular, the relations between the components of a structural representation carry quantifiable information about the relations between components of their signifieds. It follows that the information carried by cognitive structural representations, including cognitive maps, can …
Teleosemantics, Structural Resemblance and Predictive Processing
We propose a pluralist account of content for predictive processing systems. Our pluralism combines Millikan’s teleosemantics with existing structural resemblance accounts. The paper has two goals. First, we outline how a teleosemantic treatment of signal passing in predictive processing systems would work, and how it integrates with structural resemblance accounts. We show that the core explanatory motivations and conceptual machinery of teleose…
An improved metric for estimating morphological information in corpora
The emergence of large, consistently annotated corpora in many languages opens new avenues for linguistic typology by enabling the incorporation of usage-based evidence, including frequency information, into the study of language complexity. Morphological information is one of several facets of language complexity. In this paper, we use morphological feature annotations from the Universal Dependencies (UD) corpora to quantify information carried …
Computer Science (4 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (1 works)