Explaining and Critical Analysis of Fodor’ s Language of Thought Hypothesis

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MORVARID JAFAR; Salari Morteza

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Journal: Journal of Existence and Knowledge Year:2019 | Volume:6 | Issue:1 (11) Page(s): 1-30

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Explaining and Critical Analysis of Fodor’ s Language of Thought Hypothesis

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MORVARID JAFAR | Salari Morteza | Issue Writer Certificate

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the Language of ThoughtQ1

FunctionalismQ2

PhysicalismQ2

the Cartesian ProblemQ1

the Brentano's ProblemQ1

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Factionalists claimed that the mental states must be defined through specific functional roles that they play in explaining the behavior of organism in different positions. Fodor the contemporary American philosopher believes in some sort of Functionalism which is known as psycho-Functionalism. He also believes in intentional realism with respect to mental states and a form of non-reduction Physicalism. He creates a hypothesis called the Language of Thought, which is a combination of realistic reading of mental state and computational explanation of the process of reasoning that both are based on aforementioned beliefs, in order to provide a physicalistic response for the old ambiguities of the philosophy of mind. According to this hypothesis, thinking and reasoning occur in one mental language. The mental language has syntax and semantic and reasoning includes a syntax process on mental representations. The main aims of this study firstly is to provide the theoretical explanation of this hypothesis as well as explaining the most important features of the Language of Thought and secondly to provide a critical study of that hypothesis by the means of examining the arguments posed against or in favor of that hypothesis.

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MORVARID, JAFAR, & Salari, Morteza. (2019). Explaining and Critical Analysis of Fodor’ s Language of Thought Hypothesis. JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, 6(1 (11) ), 1-30. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/404544/en

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MORVARID JAFAR, Salari Morteza. Explaining and Critical Analysis of Fodor’ s Language of Thought Hypothesis. JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE[Internet]. 2019;6(1 (11) ):1-30. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/404544/en

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JAFAR MORVARID, and Morteza Salari, “Explaining and Critical Analysis of Fodor’ s Language of Thought Hypothesis,” JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, vol. 6, no. 1 (11) , pp. 1–30, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/404544/en

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