[Xmca-l] Re: FW: BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Veissière et al.

Thu Jun 20 02:53:06 PDT 2019

It would be great to have someone from XMCA who would comment and enrich
this debate (on these days I am not available to do it).
The underlying model in this upcoming article seems to rely mostly on
conformity, monological approaches, etc. In the paper (attached here) we
offer a completely different approach, much more inspired by dialogism,
cultural historical theory, and a serious account of the activity that the
child indulges in when answering.
Hoping to read you on these issues.

Anne-Nelly

Prof. emer. Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont
Institut de psychologie et éducation
Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines
Université de Neuchâtel
Espace Tilo-Frey 1   CH 2000 Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
http://www.unine.ch/ipe/publications/anne_nelly_perret_clermont

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Objet : [Xmca-l]  FW: BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Veissière et al.

>I'm reading through this upcoming article in BBS which takes as its
>primary problem, acquisition of culture.
>BBS solicits commentaries on each article, and these are reviewed and
>then published along with it.
>As there is not a single reference to Vygotsky or cultural historical
>theory in the article, I thought someone on XMCA might want to submit a
>commentary.
>David
>
>
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>Subject: BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Veissière et al.
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>Dear Dr. Kirshner:
>
>We are writing you to announce that BBS has just accepted an article for
>open peer commentary in BBS. The article was already reviewed, and we are
>now accepting commentary proposals. If you are interested in writing a
>commentary, you are welcome to submit a short proposal (see instructions
>below). No action is required if you aren't interested.
>
>Please DO NOT submit a full commentary article unless you are formally
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>been discussed in the target article, and other considerations.
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>NOW PROCESSING COMMENTARY PROPOSALS ON:
>
>Target Article: Thinking Through Other Minds: A Variational Approach to
>Cognition and Culture
>
>Authors: Samuel P. L. Veissière, Axel Constant, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead,
>Karl J. Friston, and Laurence J. Kirmayer
>
>Deadline for Commentary Proposals: Tuesday July 9, 2019
>
>Abstract: The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain
>unclear. How are shared habits, norms, and expectations learned and
>maintained with precision and reliability across large-scale
>sociocultural ensembles? Is there a unifying account of the mechanisms
>involved in the acquisition of culture? Notions such as 'shared
>expectations', the 'selective patterning of attention and behaviour',
>'cultural evolution', 'cultural inheritance', and 'implicit learning' are
>the main candidates to underpin a unifying account of cognition and the
>acquisition of culture; however, their interactions require greater
>specification and clarification. In this paper, we integrate these
>candidates using the variational (free energy) approach to human
>cognition and culture in theoretical neuroscience. We describe the
>construction by humans of social niches that afford epistemic resources
>called cultural affordances. We argue that human agents learn the shared
>habits, norms, and expectations of their culture through immersive
>participation in patterned cultural practices that selectively pattern
>attention and behaviour. We call this process "Thinking through Other
>Minds" (TTOM) - in effect, the process of inferring other agents'
>expectations about the world and how to behave in social context. We
>argue that for humans, information from and about other people's
>expectations constitutes the primary domain of statistical regularities
>that humans leverage to predict and organize behaviour. The integrative
>model we offer has implications that can advance theories of cognition,
>enculturation, adaptation, and psychopathology. Crucially, this formal
>(variational) treatment seeks to resolve key debates in current cognitive
>science, such as the distinction between internalist and externalist
>accounts of Theory of Mind abilities and the more fundamental distinction
>between dynamical and representational accounts of enactivism.
>
>
>Keywords: Cognition and culture; Variational free energy principle;
>Social learning; Epistemic Affordances; Cultural affordances; Niche
>construction; Embodiment; Enactment
>
>
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>COMMENTARY PROPOSALS *MUST* INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING
>
>1. Name of the target article for which you are submitting a commentary
>proposal. 
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>2. All authors, including any possible co-authors, listed at the top of
>your submission document.
>
>3. What aspect of the target article or book you would anticipate
>commenting on. 
>
>4. The relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the target article
>or book.
>
>Please number these sections in your proposal: 1., 2., 3., 4.
>
>EDITORS' NOTES ON WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL
>
>In addition to the open "Call for Commentary Proposals," we invite
>commentators who do not submit proposals‹these include reviewers of the
>paper, scholars whose work is discussed in the paper, and commentators
>suggested by the authors. (Obviously, these can be overlapping sets.)
>Once we subtract this set, only about 20 submitted proposals from the
>Call for Commentary Proposals can be invited to write a commentary.
>
>Commentary selection is necessarily multifactorial. It must be balanced
>to a degree across the various fields of cognitive science, point of view
>of the article, and several other aspects of academic diversity. The
>number of proposals can vary widely, however, depending on the topic, the
>range is from 15 to 150! In the latter case, when we can accept only a
>little over 1 in 10 of the proposals, a few things will facilitate a
>positive reading of a proposal, and hopefully acceptance, given the
>constraints:
>
>1. The proposal for the commentary should not be longer than the
>commentary, 1,000 words. 100-500 is optimal, and we value succinctness.
>On the other hand, "I intend to comment on X aspect of the target
>article" is not enough.  Are you for it, against it, or extending it?
>
>2. Under no circumstances should proposers simply write a commentary and
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> 
>3. Proposers should clearly state what aspect of the target article they
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>commentary forum only to promote their own research and not engage with
>the target article. Such proposals are routinely declined.
>
>4. Concerning "the relevant expertise you would bring to bear": While the
>editors have a generally good idea of who is active in the fields of the
>target article, we must cover a wide range and may be unaware of the
>people who have been most productive and influential in a given area, or
>the scholars who have engaged in heated debate with the authors in the
>past. So, the editors will be greatly helped if every proposer states
>their position in the field and lists between 2-10 relevant publications,
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>circumstances should an entire CV be included.
>
>5. BUT Š it's not all about articles previously published, or position in
>the field. It's not necessary to have published in the area, and it's not
>necessary to have a current academic appointment.  We make efforts to
>include proposals coming both from established figures and total
>newcomers. An engaging idea elicited by the article, an illuminating
>application of the target article concept to an allied field, or a truly
>clever riposte is often all that's needed.
>
>6. Being a co-author on multiple proposals directed to one target article
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>
>7. We make our choices mostly on quality and fit, but we do want to open
>up BBS to as many individuals as possible. If you've written one or more
>other commentaries recently, your odds of having another one accepted
>will correspondingly go down, though not to zero.
>
>HOW TO SUBMIT A COMMENTARY PROPOSAL VIA THE ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM
>
>If you would like to nominate yourself for potential commentary
>invitation, you must submit a commentary proposal via our BBS Editorial
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>Cambridge University Press
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