September 2018

Philosophy

The Mind-Body Problem – Fodor (1981)

ByCASA Secretary September 30, 2018November 3, 2018

In this paper Fodor provides both a historical and philosophical account of the rise of Functionalism as one of the dominant paradigms within both the philosophy of mind and the psychological sciences. Here he argues that the appeal of Functionalism arises in part from the critical failures of the theories before it – such as…

Linguistics | Psychology

The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally – Goldin-Meadow et al (2008)

ByCASA Secretary September 21, 2018November 3, 2018

“To test whether the language we speak influences our behavior even when we are not speaking, we asked speakers of four languages differing in their predominant word orders (English, Turkish, Spanish, and Chinese) to perform two nonverbal tasks: a communicative task (describing an event by using gesture without speech) and a noncommunicative task (reconstructing an…