Prof. Nick Chater - The Language Game (Part 1)

Prof. Nick Chater - The Language Game (Part 1)

Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches. We discuss his books The Mind is Flat, and the Language Game.


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