Thought and language / edited by John Preston.
| Other author | Preston, John, 1957- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Description | vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 42 Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 42. ^A475447 |
| Contents | Introduction : thought as language / John Preston -- Seeing through language / Donald Davidson -- "The only sure sign ..." : thought and language in Descartes / John Cottingham -- Words and pictures / John Hyman -- Social externalism and conceptual diversity / Andrew Woodfield -- Explanation of cognition / John P. Searle -- Thought without language : thought without awareness? / L. Wieskrantz -- Philosophy, thought and language / Hans-Johann Glock -- Flowering of thought in language / W.V. Quine -- Talking to cats, rats and bats / K.V. Wilkes -- Analyticity, linguistic rules and epistemic evaluation / Christopher Hookway -- How to do other things with words / Daniel C. Dennett. |
| General note | Papers presented to the annual conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, University of Reading, Sept. 1996. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97042270 |
| ISBN | 0521587417 (pbk.) |