{"id":1097,"date":"2013-02-09T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2018-04-24T23:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:47:22","slug":"dan-sperber-2013-speakers-are-honest-because-hearers-are-vigilant-reply-to-kourken-michaelian-in-episteme-10-1-61-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013_speakers-are-honest-because-hearers-are-vigilant.pdf\">Dan Sperber (2013) <b>Speakers are honest because hearers are vigilant: Reply to Kourken Michaelian<\/b>. <i>Episteme 10<\/i>(1),  61-71.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: In \u201cThe evolution of testimony: Receiver vigilance, speaker honesty, and the reliability of communication&#8221;, Kourken Michaelian questions the basic tenets of our article \u201cEpistemic vigilance\u201d (Sperber et al. 2010). Here I defend against Michaelian\u2019s criticisms the view that epistemic vigilance plays a major role in explaining the evolutionary stability of communication and that the honesty of speakers and the reliability of their testimony are, to a large extent, an effect of hearers\u2019 vigilance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,7,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}