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
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