Language, thought and consciousness: an essay in.
In contrast, Peter Carruthers argues that much of human conscious thinking is conducted in the medium of natural language sentences. However, this does not commit him to any sort of Whorfian linguistic relativism, and the view is developed within a framework that is broadly nativist and modularist.Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay In Philosophical Psychology Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996 Andrew Woodfield Department of Philosophy University of Bristol In 1975, when Fodor's iconoclastic book The Language of Thought was published, few philosophers of mind suspected that it would one day become orthodox.Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.
In critical condition: Polemical essays on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 37, Issue. 4, p. 405. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 37, Issue. 4, p. 405.Carruthers offers a refreshing piece of “substantive philosophy.” Going beyond the limitations of pure analysis, he adopts a methodology which is one part analysis, one part empirical data, and a heavy.
Language, he argues, creates consciousness in human beings. ie, take away language, and you take away much of what it means to be human. The book is fairly heavyweight in terms of its academic credibility, and contains much vivid discussion of some the ideas aruond in philosophical cognition around today (eg Fodor, Searle, Dennett).
