Locking on to the language of thought

Viger, Christopher

doi:10.1080/09515080120051562

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“…If it fails my case is stronger. 7 In fact, I have critiqued Fodor's theory of content elsewhere (Viger, 2001) and I am sympathetic to Akins's suspicions about causal/informational theories of content in general (Akins, 1996). 8 This was the actual case Fodor presented at Rutgers, November 2001, in response to Spelke and Tsivkin (2001).…”

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Learning to Think: A Response to the Language of Thought Argument for Innateness

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2005

Mind and Language

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Jerry Fodor's argument for an innate language of thought continues to be a hurdle for researchers arguing that natural languages provide us with richer conceptual systems than our innate cognitive resources. I argue that because the logical/formal terms of natural languages are given a use-theory of meaning, unlike predicates, logical/ formal terms might be learned without a mediating internal representation. In that case, our innate representational system might have less logical structure than a natural language, making it possible that we augment our innate representational system and improve our ability to think by learning a natural language.

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Learning to Think: A Response to the Language of Thought Argument for Innateness

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2005

Mind and Language

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Locking on to the language of thought

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Learning to Think: A Response to the Language of Thought Argument for Innateness

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