Christopher Viger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher Viger is involved.

Articles

Viger, Christopher 2009 The acquired language of thought hypothesis: A theory of symbol grounding Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 127–144 | Article

Viger, Christopher 2007 The acquired language of thought hypothesis: A theory of symbol grounding Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Article

I present the symbol grounding problem in the larger context of a materialist theory of content and then present two problems for causal, teleo-functional accounts of content. This leads to a distinction between two kinds of mental representations: presentations and symbols; only the latter are… read more