Among the remarkable emergent capabilities of large language models (LMs) is free-text
rationalization; beyond a certain scale, large LMs are capable of generating seemingly …

People frequently rely on explanations provided by others to understand complex
phenomena. A fair amount of attention has been devoted to the study of scientific …

Are explanations of different kinds (formal, mechanistic, teleological) judged differently
depending on their contextual utility, defined as the extent to which they support the kinds of …

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher
Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism …

The cognitive sciences tell us that the self is a construct. The visual arts illustrate this fact.
Mathematics give it full expression, abstracting the self to a Grothendieck site. This self is a …

Object To evaluate whether central lobe epilepsy (CLE) surgery in the pericentral area
implies inevitable function loss and to determine how postsurgical functional outcomes are …

By using a systems biological perspective and available literature on human social
interaction, grouping, and cohesiveness, a new coherent model is proposed that integrates …

Recently, there has been growing interest in using language models (LMs) for human-AI
collaboration. To explain their reasoning processes to humans, state-of-the-art LMs have …