Thought and language / edited by John Preston.
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: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ;
42. |
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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 debate. Among the questions addressed are: is language conceptually prior to thought, or vice versa? Must thought take place 'in' a medium? To what extent can creatures without language be credited with thoughts? Do we have to suppose that thinking involves the use of concepts? What does it mean to have and deploy a concept? How do recent psychological experiments bear on these issues? Are beliefs, desires, hopes and fears rightly construed as 'attitudes towards propositions'? Should twentieth-century philosophy be conceived of in terms of Michael Dummett's distinction between 'analytical philosophy' and the 'philosophy of thought'?--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | "The papers in this volume, except for the introduction, were all presented, in the order in which they are published here, to the annual conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, held at the University of Reading in September 1996"--Page v. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 249 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511563787 9780511563782 0521587417 9780521587419 |
| ISSN: | 1358-2461 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511563782 |