An essay on the language of thought

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Autor(a) principal: Raquel Albieri Krempel
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Tese
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.11606/T.8.2018.tde-08102018-161307
Resumo: 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.
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spelling info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis An essay on the language of thought Um ensaio sobre a linguagem do pensamento 2018-06-29Joao Vergilio Gallerani CuterAndré LeclercMarcos Fernando LopesOsvaldo Frota Pessoa JuniorMarco Antonio Caron RuffinoRaquel Albieri KrempelUniversidade de São PauloFilosofiaUSPBR Conceitos Concepts Fodor Fodor Language Linguagem Pensamento Thought 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. O objetivo geral desta tese é esclarecer e discutir diversos tópicos relacionados, de um modo ou de outro, à hipótese da linguagem do pensamento, formulada de maneira mais elaborada por Jerry Fodor. A hipótese da linguagem do pensamento é uma hipótese sobre a natureza das representações mentais. Ela diz que representações mentais têm uma estrutura linguística. Isso é o mesmo que dizer que, tal como sentenças em uma língua natural, representações mentais têm constituintes primitivos (com propriedades sintáticas e semânticas), que se combinam para formar símbolos sintática e semanticamente complexos. A hipótese da linguagem do pensamento está profundamente relacionada à teoria representacional e à teoria computacional da mente. Discutirei essas teorias e as compararei com algumas visões filosóficas opostas da mente. Em seguida, discutirei os argumentos da produtividade e da sistematicidade, em favor da linguagem do pensamento. Finalmente, veremos diferentes modos de conceber a relação entre a linguagem do pensamento e as línguas naturais. https://doi.org/10.11606/T.8.2018.tde-08102018-161307info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessengreponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USPinstname:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)instacron:USP2023-12-21T18:29:28Zoai:teses.usp.br:tde-08102018-161307Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertaçõeshttp://www.teses.usp.br/PUBhttp://www.teses.usp.br/cgi-bin/mtd2br.plvirginia@if.usp.br|| atendimento@aguia.usp.br||virginia@if.usp.bropendoar:27212023-12-22T12:21:05.029353Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)false
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dc.contributor.referee1.fl_str_mv André Leclerc
dc.contributor.referee2.fl_str_mv Marcos Fernando Lopes
dc.contributor.referee3.fl_str_mv Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior
dc.contributor.referee4.fl_str_mv Marco Antonio Caron Ruffino
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Raquel Albieri Krempel
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André Leclerc
Marcos Fernando Lopes
Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior
Marco Antonio Caron Ruffino
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