Three Categories Concerning India, Modernity, Thinking and Thought

Thinking about thinking: language, thought and introspection

I do not think that the world or the sciences would ever have suggested to me any philosophical problems. What has suggested philosophical problems to me is things which other philosophers have said about the world or the sciences. (G.E. Moore, 1942, p. 14) Peter Carruthers has made a vigorous attempt to defend the admittedly unfashionable doctrine that we think ‘in’ language, despite its displ...

Thinking and the New Psychology: Imageless Thought

Although the birthdate of an experimental psychology can be argued, Wilhelm Wundts assumption of paternity cannot. It was Wundt in 1874 who marked out the "new domain of science" and who made the break with -self-observation by insisting that "all accurate observation implies . . . that the observed object is independent of the observer." The psychical processes had to be properly controlled in...

Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

Three barriers to effective thought experiments, as revealed by a system that externalizes students' thinking

This study aimed to develop a Thought Experiment Externalizer (TE-ext) and to apply it in order to observe barriers to problem solving. TE-ext enables students to visualize a problem situation. Users of TE-ext can implement changes in the situation and see the result as an animation. Experimental use of TE-ext identified three barriers to conducting an effective thought experiment (TE). First, ...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity