Introduction: Thought as Language / John Preston -- Seeing through Language / Donald Davidson -- 'The only sure sign ...': Thought and Language in Descartes / John Cottingham -- Words and Pictures / John Hyman -- Social Externalism and Conceptual Diversity / Andrew Woodfield -- The Explanation of Cognition / John R. Searle -- Thought Without Language: Thought Without Awareness? / L. Weiskrantz -- Philosophy, Thought and Language / Hans-Johann Glock -- The Flowering of Thought in Language / W. V. Quine -- Talking to Cats, Rats and Bats / K. V. Wilkes -- Analyticity, Linguistic Rules and Epistemic Evaluation / Christopher Hookway -- How to Do Other Things With Words / Daniel C. Dennett -- Bibliography: Twentieth-Century Philosophical Texts on Thought and Language
Notes
Papers presented to the annual conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, University of Reading, Sept. 1996
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index