Tadeg Quillien
@TadegQuillien
Cognitive scientist at the University of Edinburgh. Causality, computation, evolution.
How do people make causal judgments? Our paper with Chris Lucas (forthcoming at Psychological Review) offers a theory grounded in formal models of counterfactual reasoning. psyarxiv.com/ts76y/
Our new paper at the intersection of causal cognition and linguistics Take a sentence of the form “AGENT caused OUTCOME” Our studies suggest: Some surprising effects in intuitions about these sentences can be explained using theories from linguistics about the “agent role”
Suppose Tom loses control of his body, and his bodily motions then cause an accident. Would it be right to say “Tom caused the accident?” A new paper explores the role that language plays in these links between agency and causation! 🔗👇
Centaur, a foundation model of human cognition, out in @Nature recently has demonstrated impressive predictive performance on human behaviors, especially compared against domain-specific cognitive models. But do you know what makes their performance so great?
Excited to see our Centaur project out in @Nature. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
New #SPSPblog: Are People Who Oppose Abortion Simply Concerned About Saving Lives? by @jordan_w_moon & @JaimieKrems ow.ly/49Uf50Wl2iX
This makes perfect sense
Our paper on the logic of guesses is now out (w/ @NeilBramley and Chris Lucas). We provide a new information-theoretic perspective on many phenomena (old and new) in judgment under uncertainty. 🧵
very elegant paper!
Our paper on the logic of guesses is now out (w/ @NeilBramley and Chris Lucas). We provide a new information-theoretic perspective on many phenomena (old and new) in judgment under uncertainty. 🧵
Yale Philosophy offers a course on “Formal Philosophical Methods” — a broad introduction to probability, logic, formal semantics, etc. Instructor Calum McNamara has now made all materials for the course (78 pages) freely available static1.squarespace.com/static/6255ffe…