Thinking without words
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Thinking without words
（Philosophy of mind series）
Oxford University Press, 2007, c2003
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First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to
non-linguistic creatures have frequently been held to be metaphorical and not to be taken at face value. Bermudez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. Whereas existing discussions of thought at the non-linguistic level have concentrated on how such thoughts
might be physically realized, Bermudez approaches the problem by considering what is required in explaining behavior in psychological terms. In developing a positive account of non-linguistic thought he shows how the experimental tools used by developmental psychologists and students of animal behavior can be used to give a precise account of the way in which a human infant or non-human animal is representing the world. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the differences between
thinking without words and language-based thinking. Bermudez argues that there are clear limits to the expressive power of non-linguistic thought. Nonetheless, he identifies primitive analogues at the non-linguistic level that can be used to explain sophisticated non-linguistic behaviors. Thinking Without
Words is the first full-length philosophical study of this important topic. It is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.
目次
- 1. The Problem of Thinking without Words
- 2. Two Approaches to the Nature of Thought
- 3. Minimalist Approaches to Nonlinguistic Thought
- 4. Ascribing Thoughts to Nonlinguistic Creatures: Toward and Ontology
- 5. Ascribing Thoughts to Nonlinguistic Creatures: Modes of Presentation
- 6. Rationality without Language
- 7. Practical Reasoning and Protologic
- 8. Language and Thinking about Thoughts
- 9. The Limits of Thinking without Words
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