An essay on the language of thought (2018)
- Authors:
- Autor USP: KREMPEL, RAQUEL ALBIERI - FFLCH
- Unidade: FFLCH
- Sigla do Departamento: FLF
- Subjects: PENSAMENTO; LINGUAGEM; LINGUAGEM NATURAL; LINGUÍSTICA
- Agências de fomento:
- Language: Inglês
- Abstract: The general goal of this dissertation is to clarify and discuss several topics that are, in some way or other, related to the language of thought hypothesis, put forward most forcefully by Jerry Fodor. The language of thought hypothesis is a hypothesis about the nature of mental representations. It says that mental representations have a linguistic structure. This is the same as saying that, just like sentences in a natural language, mental representations have primitive constituents (with syntactic and semantic properties), which combine to form syntactically and semantically complex symbols. The language of thought hypothesis is closely related to the representational and computational theories of mind. I discuss them and compare them to some opposing philosophical views of the mind. I then discuss the productivity and the systematicity arguments for the language of thought. Finally, we will see different ways to conceive the relation between the language of thought and the natural languages.
- Imprenta:
- Data da defesa: 29.06.2018
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ABNT
KREMPEL, Raquel Albieri. An essay on the language of thought. 2018. Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2018. Disponível em: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-08102018-161307/. Acesso em: 31 maio 2024. -
APA
Krempel, R. A. (2018). An essay on the language of thought (Tese (Doutorado). Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo. Recuperado de http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-08102018-161307/ -
NLM
Krempel RA. An essay on the language of thought [Internet]. 2018 ;[citado 2024 maio 31 ] Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-08102018-161307/ -
Vancouver
Krempel RA. An essay on the language of thought [Internet]. 2018 ;[citado 2024 maio 31 ] Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-08102018-161307/
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