This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves. Developing from these themes are the questions: what does having a belief require of the believer, and of the way he or she relates to the environment?
In particular, does having a belief require speaking a language? The volume concludes the informal series stemming from the meetings sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation. It will interest analytical philosophers, students doing courses in philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition and philosophically interested researchers in cognitive psychology.
| ISBN: | 9780521320467 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 1986 |
| Author: | Jeremy Butterfield |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism |
This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves.
Language, Mind and Logic features in the following genres: Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism
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Language, Mind and Logic was written by Jeremy Butterfield and published by Cambridge University Press
Language, Mind and Logic has 232 pages