Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking machine? The computer
revolution transformed discussion of these questions, offering our best prospects yet for …

What is a concept? Philosophers have given many different answers to this question,
reflecting a wide variety of approaches to the study of mind and language. Nonetheless, at …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) proposes that thinking occurs in a mental
language. Often called Mentalese, the mental language resembles spoken language in …

A comprehensive introduction to the Language of Though Hypothesis (LOTH) accessible to
general audiences. LOTH is an empirical thesis about thought and thinking. For their …

A philosophical refashioning of the Language of Thought approach and the related
computational theory of mind. The language of thought (LOT) approach to the nature of mind …

Conceptual atomists argue that most of our concepts are primitive. I take up three arguments
that have been thought to support atomism and show that they are inconclusive. The …

An influential tradition holds that thoughts are public: different thinkers share many of their
thoughts, and the same applies to a single subject at different times. This 'publicity …

This dissertation is a defense of perceptual pluralism, the thesis that perceptual systems
deliver multiple types of representations including those used in thought. In particular, it …

OF MENTAL CONTENT* obert Cummins' argues that any causal theory of mental content
(CT) founders on an established fact of human psychology: that theory mediates sensory …