In case you don’t know, the Cognition & Culture group blog is of some interest. One of the contributors is Dan Sperber, who I interviewed a few years ago. Sperber et al. work within the naturalistic paradigm in cultural anthropology. I like to think of it as anthropology that comes not to praise gibberish, but bury it. In all likelihood the models are mostly wrong, but that’s a feature. In much of American cultural anthropology the models can’t even be wrong because of the incredibly obfuscatory word-play.
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