Thinking in Language?: Evolution and a Modularist Possibility

By Peter Carruthers. 1998

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models (2022, background): “This raises an intriguing possibility: beyond their ability to interpret natural language instructions, can language models further serve as reasoning models that combine multiple sources of feedback and become interactive problem solvers for embodied tasks, such as robotic manipulation? Prior studi”
Vygotskian Autotelic Artificial Intelligence: Language and Culture Internalization for Human-Like AI (2022, background): “82 Clark advances yet another possibility, the supra-communicative view .”
Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: A Polish-Danish cross-cultural study (2002, background): “Some philosophers in fact suggest that thought is inextricably linked to language (e.g. Cavell, 1993; Wittgenstein, 1953) or that at least all conscious thought takes place in natural language (Carruthers, 1996, 1998).”
The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution (2002, background): “The problem with all of these factors is that they are at least as likely to be consequences of language and theory of mind as they are antecedents of them (see Bogdan, 2000, and Carruthers, 1998).”
Rethinking the multiplicity of cognitive resources and curricular representations: Alternatives to 'learning styles' and 'multiple intelligences' (2003, background): “Carruthers and A. Chamberlain (eds), Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Metacognition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 113–139. Yates, G. C. R. (2000) Applying learning style research in the classroom: some cautions and the way ahead. In R. Riding and R. Rayner (eds), Int”