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Rebecca, Rebecca!, Harriet Baber Phd
Rebecca, Rebecca!, Harriet Baber Phd
Philosophy: Faculty Scholarship
Harriet Baber, PhD, Philosophy Department, commented at an invited session, titled Rebecca, Rebecca! on Adaptive Preference at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver on April 20, 2019.
Wittgenstein And Embodied Cognition: A Critique Of The Language Of Thought, Amber Sheldon
Wittgenstein And Embodied Cognition: A Critique Of The Language Of Thought, Amber Sheldon
Keck Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellows
The assertions of this paper will be concerned with language acquisition as it is presented in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations in contrast with Jerry Fodor’s theory of tacit language described in The Language of Thought. This symbolic mental language is often analogized with the symbolic “language” of a computer. Fodor theorizes that the mind has an innate symbolic (and physically real) system of representation that comes prior to any natural language. Famously, with the private language argument, Wittgenstein contends that language is performed and produced by activity. One learns a language through practice and participation. In this paper, …