Conscious Thinking: Language or Elimination?

Author: Carruthers, Peter

Source: Mind & Language, Volume 13, Number 4, December 1998 , pp. 457-476(20)

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Abstract:

Do we conduct our conscious propositional thinking in natural language? Or is such language only peripherally related to human conscious thought-processes? In this paper I shall present a partial defence of the former view, by arguing that the only real alternative is eliminativism about conscious propositional thinking. Following some introductory remarks, I shall state the argument for this conclusion, and show how that conclusion can be true. Thereafter I shall defend each of the three main premises in turn.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00087

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.

Publication date: 1998-12-01