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How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

Tom Ziemke Open the ORCID record for Tom Ziemke [Opens in a new window]  and
Sam Thellman Open the ORCID record for Sam Thellman [Opens in a new window]
Tom Ziemke
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden tom.ziemke@liu.se; https://liu.se/en/employee/tomzi64 sam.thellman@liu.se; https://liu.se/en/employee/samth78
Sam Thellman
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden tom.ziemke@liu.se; https://liu.se/en/employee/tomzi64 sam.thellman@liu.se; https://liu.se/en/employee/samth78
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Abstract

In this commentary we would like to question (a) Clark and Fischer's characterization of the “social artifact puzzle” – which we consider less puzzling than the authors, and (b) their account of social robots as depictions involving three physical scenes – which to us seems unnecessarily complex. We contrast the authors' model with a more parsimonious account based on attributions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e50
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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