Thought and language /
The relationship between thought and language has been of central importance to philosophy ever since Plato characterised thinking as 'a dialogue the soul has with itself'. In this volume, several major twentieth-century philosophers of mind and language make further contributions to the d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : thought as language / John Preston
- Seeing through language / Donald Davidson
- "The only sure sign ..." : thought and language in Descartes / John Cottingham
- Words and pictures / John Hyman
- Social externalism and conceptual diversity / Andrew Woodfield
- Explanation of cognition / John P. Searle
- Thought without language : thought without awareness? / L. Wieskrantz
- Philosophy, thought and language / Hans-Johann Glock
- Flowering of thought in language / W.V. Quine
- Talking to cats, rats and bats / K.V. Wilkes
- Analyticity, linguistic rules and epistemic evaluation / Christopher Hookway
- How to do other things with words / Daniel C. Dennett.
