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The article in the issue 4:2:
The date of the publication:
2015-07-27
The number of pages:
44
The issue:
4:2
Commentaries:
0
The Authors
Filip Kobiela, Przemyslaw Spryszak, Bartosz Brożek, Mateusz Hohol, Błażej Skrzypulec, Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes, Andrzej Dąbrowski,
Bartosz Brożek is a full professor of the philosophy of law at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, as well as a member of the
Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Rule-Following. From Imitation
to the Normative Mind. His research focuses on philosophy, law, cognitive science and the relationships between them.
Mateusz Hohol holds PhD in philosophy of cognitive science and is an assistant professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II, as
well as a member of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He is the author or co-author of 2 books, including Wyjaśnić
umysł. Struktura teorii neurokognitywnych (Explaining the Mind. The Structure of Neurocognitive Theories). His research focuses on
neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy and the relationships between them.
ARTICLE:
Language as a Tool. An Insight From Cognitive Science
autor: Bartosz Brożek, Mateusz Hohol,
In this paper it has been argued that the theory of conceptual maps developed recently by Paul M. Churchland provides support for Wittgenstein’s claim that language is a tool for acting in the world. The role of language is to coordinate and shape the conceptual maps of the members of the given language community, reducing the cross-individual cognitive idiosyncrasies and paving the way for joint cognitive enterprises. Moreover, Churchland’s theory also explains our tendency to speak of language as consisting of concepts which correspond to things we encounter in the world. The puzzle of common sense reference is no longer a puzzle: while at the fundamental level language remains a tool for orchestrating conceptual maps, the fact that the maps encode some communally shared categorization of experience fuels our talk of concepts capturing the essences of things, natural kinds, prototypes, etc.
