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19Uriah KRIEGEL,. New York: Oxford University Press 2009. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0199570355 (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 85 (1): 347-353. 2012.
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99In defense of wordless thoughts about thoughtsMind and Language 22 (3). 2007.Bermúdez (2003) argues that (T1) nonlinguistic creatures can think thoughts about protocausal conditional states of affairs and engage in rudimentary forms of reasoning, but (T2) they cannot ‘in principle’ think thoughts about thoughts (propositions)—in particular, they cannot have higher-order propositional attitudes (PAs). I reconstruct Bermúdez’s argument for T2 and show that it rests upon an implausible empirical assumption and is, therefore, not a threat to current empirical research into n…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |