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| Author(s): |
Raquel Albieri Krempel
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-06-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Joao Vergilio Gallerani Cuter;
André Leclerc;
Marcos Fernando Lopes;
Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior;
Marco Antonio Caron Ruffino
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| Advisor: | Joao Vergilio Gallerani Cuter |
| 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. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/15037-0 - The relation between thought and language starting from Jerry Fodor |
| Grantee: | Raquel Albieri Krempel |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |