Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

There are two versions of the language-of-thought hypothesis (LOT): Representational LOT
(roughly, structured representation), introduced by Ockham, and computational LOT …

Quilty-Dunn et al.'s wide-ranging defense of the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LoTH)
argues that vision traffics in abstract, structured representational formats. We agree: Vision …

Different authors offer subtly different characterizations of naïve realism. We disentangle the
main ones and argue that illusions provide the best proving ground for naïve realism and its …

The success of models of human behavior based on Bayesian inference over logical
formulas or programs is taken as evidence that people employ a" language-of-thought" that …

The distinction between perception and cognition frames countless debates in philosophy
and cognitive science. But what, if anything, does this distinction actually amount to? In this …

There are two ways to understand any proposed properties of LoTs: as diagnostic or
constitutive. We argue that this choice is critical. If candidate properties are diagnostic, their …

We propose that episodic thought (ie, episodic memory and imagination) is a domain where
the language-of-thought hypothesis (LoTH) could be fruitfully applied. On the one hand …

Modes of presentation (MOPs) are often said to have to be transparent, usually in the sense
that thinkers can know solely via introspection whether or not they are deploying the same …

Object individuation provides a test case for the claim that infants already have a
prelinguistic language-of-thought (LOT). By 12 months, infants represent several sortal …