Abstract “What is the structure of thought?” is as central a question as any in cognitive
science. A classic answer to this question has appealed to a Language of Thought (LoT) …

The classical notion of a 'language of thought'(LoT), advanced prominently by the
philosopher Jerry Fodor, is an influential position in cognitive science whereby the mental …

What might we learn if we take seriously the possibility of non-human Languages of Thought
(LoT)? A LoT is a combinatorial set of mental representations. And, since mental …

According to the language-of-thought (LOT) hypothesis, conceptual thinking occurs in an
internal language-like representational medium. The LOT program and the connectionist …

To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

Recent theorizing about concepts has been dominated by two broad models: crudely
speaking, a philosophical one on which concepts are rule-governed atoms, and a …

In LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited, Jerry Fodor argues that concept learning of
any kind—even for complex concepts—is simply impossible. In order to avoid the conclusion …

This paper criticizes the role of intuition-based ascriptions of cognition that are closely
related to the ascription of mind. This practice hinders the explication of a clear and stable …

Cognitive scientists must understand not just what the mind does, but how it does what it
does. In this paper, I consider four aspects of cognitive architecture: how the mind develops …

A comprehensive introduction to the Language of Though Hypothesis (LOTH) accessible to
general audiences. LOTH is an empirical thesis about thought and thinking. For their …