Thought and Talk

By D. Davidson. 2001

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The voice of self-control: blocking the inner voice increases impulsive responding. (2010, background): “Historically, views on the nature of the inner voice have varied dramatically, with some arguing that the inner voice is nothingmore than “speechminus sound” (Muller, 1864) or “sub-vocal speech” (Watson, 1919), while others maintain that inner speech is nothing less than the medium of conscious thou”
How to ascribe beliefs to animals (2020, background): “In other words, if you have too many false beliefs about squirrels, at some point those beliefs stop being about squirrels, and start being about something else, or as Davidson puts it, “too much mistake simply blurs the focus” (Davidson, 1975, p.168).”
Analogue Magnitude Representations: A Philosophical Introduction (2015, background): “Experiments with functional magnetic resonance imaging have isolated an area in both parietal lobes inside the intraparietal sulcus that correlates with magnitude discriminations in humans and other primates regardless of the modality through which the magnitude is perceived or represented (Dehaene ”
Partial belief and flat-out belief ∗ (2009, background): “Borrowing a term from Mark Kaplan, I shall refer to this as the Bayesian Challenge (Kaplan 1996).2 The challenge has an especially strong bite if one adopts an interpretivist view of the mind of the sort advocated by, among others, Donald Davidson and Daniel Dennett (Davidson 1975; Dennett 1981).”