The Philosophy of Psychology
3 The place of natural language in thought When the question of the place of natural language in cognition has been debated by p ...
3.1 The options What place can be found for sentences of natural language in central cognitive processes? The orthodox cognitive ...
temporal lobes. These two streams are then pooled in an associative memory system (in the posterior superior temporal lobes), wh ...
and high degree of cognitive sophistication.) In which case the claim of natural-language-involvement can be conWned to just tho ...
serial processor, and providing it with the majority of its contents. One variant of this idea is Dennett’s (1991a) vision of th ...
item froma wealthof empiricalevidence:Astington (1996)reportsWnding a high correlation between language-ability and children’s c ...
Clark (1998) argues for a sort of intermediate-strength variant of the Vygotskian idea, defending a conception of language as a ...
further beneWts for the system of the sort Clark explores (for example, oV-loading memory demands). The supra-communicative acco ...
3.3 Language and the conceptual mind: Dennett and Bickerton Dennett (1991a) argues that human cognitive powers were utterly tran ...
reasons. First, because they undervalue the cognitive powers of pre-lin- guistic children, animals, and earlier forms of hominid ...
than having the sort of non-inferential access to their own thinkings necessary for those thoughts to count as conscious ones. ( ...
circumstances in which subjects will confabulate self-explanations which are manifestly false, but without realising that this i ...
common-sense psychology, as such, nor upon any special features of the case – rather, these are just cases in which the mind-rea ...
are social constructs of some kind, taught and transmitted via language. Consider, as a kind of simple model, what happens when ...
adopt a certain goal in the light of the considerations which make it seem attractive. On this account, low-level cognition is e ...
inferential transitions between natural language sentences, where we previ- ously lacked any disposition to make similar transit ...
(Philosophers and logicians should note that Chomsky’s LF is very diVerent from whattheyare apt to mean by ‘logical form’. In pa ...
with their diVerent domains of activity – a mind-reading module for social relationships and behavioural explanation and predict ...
propositional thoughts which are conscious, and that the stream of ‘inner speech’ is constitutive of such thinking. selected rea ...
9 Consciousness: theWnal frontier? Many people have thought that consciousness – particularly phenomenal consciousness, or the s ...
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