Guest Lecture: “Thoughts without concepts”
Speaker Ellen Fridland (CUNY)
Date 21 May 2010, 14:30
Location
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1
Room 123 (ground floor)
10117 Berlin
Contact Dr. Katja Crone
Organized by Berlin School of Mind and Brain
It is widely accepted that in order to explain various characteristic features of thought, one must hold that thoughts are constituted by concepts. In this talk, I will argue that many types of rationality need not be explained in terms of full-fledged concepts. I argue that a minimal notion of intelligence is sufficient to account for several kinds of cognitive capacities and behaviors.
http://gc-cuny.academia.edu/EllenFridland