Jose Luis Bermudez

Thinking Without Words

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Produktbeschreibung

Thinking Without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. José Luis Bermudez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. The book is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780195341607
• ISBN-10: 0195341600
• Artikelnr.: 23449965

Autorenporträt

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

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