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Authors: | Pompe-Alama, Ulrike |
Title: | Crediting animals with the ability to think : on the role of language in cognition ; a commentary on Adlina Roskies |
Online publication date: | 26-Oct-2016 |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | Davidson’s argument for the claim that animals cannot be credited with beliefs rests on the assumption that possessing beliefs —as propositional attitudes —presupposes the possession of language. Based on Roskies’ reconstruction of Davidson’s argument, I want to discuss the implications of overemphasizing the role of language in thinking. I will offer a (tentative) explanation as to why this overemphasis occurs, namely due to a preoccupation with the way we experience ourselves while thinking or “having thoughts”; I further attempt to defend why a bottom-up strategy for the investigation of thought-invoking mechanisms might be a more promising way to study thought and the role of language therein. |
DDC: | 100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-674 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-550377 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Buchbeitrag |
License: | In Copyright |
Information on rights of use: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Citation: | Open MIND Metzinger, Thomas |
Pages or article number: | Kap. 33(C) |
Publisher: | MIND Group |
Publisher place: | Frankfurt am Main |
Issue date: | 2015 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570641 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.15502/9783958570641 |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |