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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      13 May 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511563782
      9780521587419
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563782
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 255 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (42)
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (42)
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    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'?

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