Canadian Communication Thought: Ten Foundational Writers

New Foundational Metaphors for Human Thought

In this paper we present an argument that sex serves as a foundational metaphor for much of computer science, Human-Computer Interaction and human thought more generally. While human sexual behavior is highly variable throughout history and geography, we further argue that a specific orientation toward sexual behavior underlies most of the current work in human-computer interaction. Further, we...

Food for thought ... the first ten years.

Ten Years to Expertise, Many More to Greatness: An Investigation of Modern Writers

The “ten-year rule” suggests that it takes about 10 years of preparation to reach “expert” status. How long does it take, however, for someone to reach a level of creative greatness? Through an analysis of 215 contemporary fiction writers, we found that these writers took an average of 10.6 years between their first publication and their best publication, although there was a high degree of var...

Ten Possible Experiments on Communication and Deception∗

I describe ten situations in which experimental data may provide useful guidance to the study of cheap-talk games. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C92, C83;

Foundational Belief Change* Foundational Belief Change

anonymous referee for the Journal of Philosophical Logic for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this paper. I also thank Prasanta Bandy-opadhyay, Jim Cain, Francis Jeery Pelletier and Ted Sider for their sugges tions and encouragement, and acknowledge the help of my friend Ramkrish-nan Nambimadom in the construction of a crucial proof. Abstract: This paper is concerned with the co...