This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that
includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth …

What is the relationship between common-sense, or'folk', psychology and contemporary
scientific psychology? Are they in conflict with one another? Or do they perform quite …

The present response elucidates, elaborates, and defends the main thesis advanced in the
target article: namely, that natural-language sentences play a constitutive role in some …

Carruthers' notion that natural language (s) might serve as the medium of non-domain-
specific, propositionally based inferential thought is extended to the case of effortful retrieval …

First, the importance of language in cognition is recognized. Nevertheless, this does not
necessarily imply that the locus of thought is natural language (words, syntax, phonology) …

The hypothesis that nonhuman species, lacking verbal language, do not really integrate
information from different modules, but use instead information sequentially, appears difficult …

The cognitive functions of language Page 1 1. Introduction Natural language looms large in
the cognitive lives of ordinary folk. Although proportions vary, many people seem to spend a …

Thought uses meaning but not necessarily language. Meaning, in the form of a set of
possible concepts and ideas, is a nonphysical reality that lay waiting for brains to become …

Language isn't the only way to cross modules, nor is it the only module with access to both
input and output. Minds don't generally work across modules because this leads to …