Stephen Mann
Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
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About me
I'm a philosopher of science and computational modeller in the CoOL group at DLCE. I am working on agent-based models of cultural evolution to help understand patterns of linguistic diversity and disparity in the Pacific. The goal is to integrate results from simulations with historical data and theoretical perspectives on language change to develop and test hypotheses about the distribution of Oceanic languages.
Curriculum Vitae
since 2024 | Postdoctoral researcher at DLCE |
2022-2024 | Postdoctoral researcher at the LOGOS Group, University of Barcelona, Spain |
2021-2022 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, UK |
2021-2024 | Guest researcher at DLCE |
2016-2020 | PhD in philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra: "Communication and cooperation in evolutionary biology". Awarded December 2020 |
2013-2015 | PhD in philosophy at King's College, London: withdrawn December 2015 as part of transfer to ANU |
2010-2013 | Software developer at Weaveability Ltd, Manchester, UK |
2006-2010 | M.Sci in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK. Equivalent to 3 year Bachelors + 1 year Masters |
My full CV is available for download here.
Publications
2024
Pain, R., & Mann, S. F. (2024). Teleosemantics, structural resemblance and predictive processing (advance online). Erkenntnis. |
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Mann, S. F., & Gregory, D. (2024). Might text-davinci-003 have inner speech? Think, 23(67), 31-38. |
2023
Mann, S. F. (2023). The relevance of communication theory for theories of representation. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 4. |
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Turner, C. R., Mann, S. F., Spike, M., Magrath, R. D., & Sterelny, K. (2023). Joint evolution of traits for social learning. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77: 47. |
2022
Mann, S. F., & Pain, R. (2022). Teleosemantics and the hard problem of content. Philosophical Psychology, 35(1), 22-46. |
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Mann, S. F., & Pain, R. A. (2022). Teleosemantics and the free energy principle. Biology and Philosophy, 37: 34. |
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Mann, S. F., Pain, R., & Kirchhoff, M. D. (2022). Free energy: a user’s guide. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4): 33. |
2020
Mann, S. F. (2020). Communication and cooperation in evolutionary biology. PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra. |
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Mann, S. F. (2020). Consequences of a functional account of information. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(3), 669-687. |
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Roberts, S. G., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. J., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. M., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. F., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgard, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., & Jordan, F. (2020). CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2), 101-120. |
2018
Mann, S. F., & Pfeifer, J. (2018). [Book review] Studying animal languages without translation: An insight from Ants / by Zhanna Reznikova. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93(1), 38-38. |
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Mann, S. F. (2018). Attribution of information in animal interaction. Biological Theory, 13(3), 164-179. |