The Philosophy of Psychology

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propositional thoughts which are conscious, and that the stream of ‘inner
speech’ is constitutive of such thinking.


selected reading


On connectionism versus LoT: Fodor, 1975, 1978, and 1987, Appendix; Bechtel
and Abrahamsen, 1991; Davies, 1991; Macdonald and Macdonald, 1995b (con-
tains papers by Smolensky, Fodor and Pylyshyn, Fodor and McLaughlin, and
Ramseyet al.); Horgan and Tienson, 1996.


On the place of natural language in cognition: Vygotsky, 1934/1986; Weiskrantz,
1988 (a collection of papers by psychologists); Dennett, 1991a; Pinker, 1994;
Bickerton, 1995; Carruthers, 1996c; Mithen, 1996; Carruthers and Boucher, 1998
(contains papers by Carruthers, Clark, Dennett, and Frankish).


226 Forms of representation

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