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Revisiting the Language of Thought Hypothesis in the Context of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Autore: Andrea Nocerino
Relatore: Fabrizio Calzavarini
Università: Università degli Studi di Torino
Facoltà: Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze della Educazione
Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Filosofia
Data di Discussione: 30/10/2025
Voto: 110 cum laude
Disciplina: Filosofia delle Neuroscienze
Tipo di Tesi: di Ricerca
Altri Relatori: Jan Michael Sprenger
Lingua: Inglese
Grande Area: Area Umanistica
Dignità di Stampa: Si
Descrizione:
The language of thought (LoT) hypothesis has traditionally been defended by arguing that our best cognitive science posits language-like representations and computations over them, while largely ignoring (with few notable exceptions) theories developed in the context of cognitive neuroscience. My thesis aims to provide a characterization of a weak or non-classical LoT based on six properties (discrete constituents, role-filler independence, logical operators, predicate-argument structure, inferential promiscuity and abstract conceptual content) and to show that there is neuroscientific and neuropsychological evidence to support the claim that they are jointly instantiated in a subset of cortical areas. This version of the hypothesis is non-classical for it is defined in terms of a set of computational constraints over legal states of a system individuating a linguistic representational format independently of architecture-level constraints over functional distinctions between primitive ...