bachelor's at Filosofia from Universidade de São Paulo (2009) and master's at Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo (2013). Has experience in Philosophy, focusing on Philosophy (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Although the relation between thought and natural language has been discussed by many philosophers from many different angles, according to Peter Carruthers (1996, 2002) two main opposing views can be identified. One is the communicative conception of language, according to which the central role of language is to express thought. The other is the cognitive conception of language, accordi…
The main goal of this project is to present and discuss the controversial language of thought hypothesis, first formulated by Jerry Fodor in The Language of Thought. According to it, thought has a linguistic structure, but cannot be identified with any particular natural language. Rather, the language of thought is innate, and it is what makes learning a first language possible. The hypot…
This thesis aims to evaluate Ludwig Wittgenstein's treatment of the traditional skeptical problem of the existence of the external world. It is especially in On Certainty where we find relevant thoughts on the topic, such as discussions about the meaning of skeptical doubt and about knowledge claims. Wittgenstein essentially rejects the problem. Against skepticism, Wittgenstein maintains …
According to a common view, conscious thoughts necessarily involve quasi-perceptual experiences, or mental images. This is alleged to be the case not only when one entertains conscious thoughts about perceptible things like cats or waterfalls, but also when one thinks about more abstract things, like the impact of philosophy on society. In the case of conscious propositional thoughts, the…
The main goal of my PhD research is to present and discuss some aspects of the language of thought hypothesis, as formulated by Jerry Fodor. In Fodor's view, the language of thought is a system of mental representations, which, just like sentences in a natural language, have syntactic constituent structure and compositional semantics. This hypothesis allows us to explain the productivity …
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