Inner Speech: New Voices

ISBN-13: 9780198796640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Peter Langland-Hassan; Agustin Vicente

Opis

Inner Speech focuses on a familiar and yet mysterious element of our daily lives. In light of renewed interest in the general connections between thought, language, and consciousness, this anthology develops a number of important new theories about internal voices and raises questions about their nature and cognitive functions.

Recenzje

A uniquely broad coverage of its interesting topic; this text will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology ... Recommended.

O autorze

Peter Langland-Hassan is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on topics including imagination, inner speech, aphasia, metacognition, and self-knowledge. Langland-Hassan was a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) program, and holds degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Agustín Vicente is a philosopher of psychology and of language, and is Research Professor for the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science at the University of the Basque Country. He writes, often in collaboration, on semantics and pragmatics, language and thought, and physicalism and naturalism. He has published more than fifty papers in prestigious philosophy and linguistics venues.