Language, Thought and Perception
Title | Language, Thought and Perception PDF eBook |
Author | Uhlan von Slagle |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 65 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110804492 |
Language, Thought and Perception. A Proposed Theory of Meaning
Title | Language, Thought and Perception. A Proposed Theory of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Uhlan Slagle |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783110995824 |
Language, thought and perception: A proposed theory of meaning based on the insights of Ernst Leisi, I. Kant, John St. Mill, Walter Ehrenstein and Wilhelm von Humboldt
Title | Language, thought and perception: A proposed theory of meaning based on the insights of Ernst Leisi, I. Kant, John St. Mill, Walter Ehrenstein and Wilhelm von Humboldt PDF eBook |
Author | Uhlan von Slagle |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 2 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Language, Thought, and Perception ...
Title | Language, Thought, and Perception ... PDF eBook |
Author | Uhlan von Slagle |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Meaning (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
The Language of Thought
Title | The Language of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry A. Fodor |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780674510302 |
In a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to buttress the notion of internal representation from a philosophical viewpoint, and to determine those characteristics of this conceptual construct using the empirical data available from linguistics and cognitive psychology.
The Philosophy of Charles Travis
Title | The Philosophy of Charles Travis PDF eBook |
Author | John Collins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191086509 |
This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy. The work of Charles Travis is fundamentally situated in the analytical tradition, yet is also radically at odds with many assumptions characteristic of the tradition, especially as regards the nature of language and perception as representational capacities. Twelve philosophers explore themes in his work, and Travis gives extended responses. The editors provide an introductory chapter which situates Travis's ideas in the context of contemporary philosophy of language and mind. The volume divides into three sections, relating to language, thought, and perception. Topics covered in detail include: the nature of linguistic and perceptual representation; Frege; Wittgenstein; the role of context in fixing speech content; and the structure of thought.
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning
Title | A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Jackendoff |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2012-02-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191620688 |
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.