<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="xp1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp2" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp3" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please join us </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">on Wednesday 15 March</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> at 12:00pm for </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7FmKCYW8Noc3yrokrS0j2Bk?domain=lfe.uni-leipzig.de/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dr Katharina Helming (Department of Philosophy at Leipzig University)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> speaking on <b>Mentalizing and the problem of coordination.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp3" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Location:</span></b></span><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> F11 - Chemistry Building Lecture Theatre 2 (144)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">There is no remote option because we want to encourage in-person attendance, so please make a plan to be there.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Note:</span></b></span><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> we can enter the room at 12:00, presentation starts 12:05.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Then please join us for </span></span><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">light refreshments</span></span><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> at 1pm in the Psychology School Common Room 428, Brennan MacCallum Building.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">For information on the weekly colloquia see: </span></span><a href="https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">School of Psychology Events</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp3" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp4" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span class="xs2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">See you there on Wednesday!</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp3" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="xp3" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; background-color: white; color: rgb(25, 25, 25);"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Abstract</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Common knowledge, that is the ability to know things together, underlies uniquely human forms of coordination. However, there is a puzzle in the existing literature about how to characterize this kind of knowledge. Traditionally philosophers propose that common knowledge requires the ability to compute higher-orders of embedded knowledge states (i.e. I know that you know that I know that you know and so forth </span><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">ad</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> infinitum that X). However, more empirically oriented accounts suggest that recursive mindreading is cognitively too demanding and thus not a plausible basis for human coordination. Instead, common knowledge is said to be achieved either on the basis of short-cuts or an arbitrary cut-off within the spiral of embedded knowledge states. But on such accounts, it remains an open question if and when (after how many steps) certainty about knowing things together can be achieved. The aim of this talk is to propose a new solution to this debate. By drawing on empirical literature across fields such as developmental, social and comparative psychology as well as linguistics I will investigate how people actually solve coordination tasks. A review of the literature shows that there is a reoccurring structure of embedded knowledge states that people use to cooperate successfully in different areas. More specifically, empirical data suggests that people actively generate three levels of embedded knowledge coordinate. Such tertiary structures are known as a “three way handshake” in computer science and can be redescribed as a mutual acknowledgment about content in social interactions. It is concluded that certainty about knowing things together in coordination is achieved based on a non-arbitrary cut-off within embedded knowledge states. The broader implications for the evolution of social cognition are discussed on this basis.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p></div><div>
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