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Carruthers, Peter. 1996. Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology. Cambridge University Press. xv + 291 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
0-521-48158-9

Annotation

This book is an impressive attempt at explaining consciousness via the role of language in cognition. The central thesis about linguistic thought is that occurrent human thought occurs in natural, spoken languages. The central thesis about consciousness is that a thought's being conscious is a matter of its being "reflexively available" to further thinking. Since it is occurrent thought that typically allows us to have thoughts about thoughts, natural language thoughts are conceived as an essential part of human consciousness.

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