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Nikhil Mahant

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Uppsala University

Nikhil Mahant is a philosopher specialising in language. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden.

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Extraterrestrial tongues

Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages

Nikhil Mahant