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Inner Speech, Speech Acts, and the Metaphysics of Language Wade Munroe There is scant mention of inner speech in the extensive literature on speech-act theory and recent work on the metaphysics of words and other linguistic entities. This is a substantial oversight. My post is a rallying cry: Inner speech …

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Are there words in my head? Peter Langland-Hassan University of Cincinnati When we say something to ourselves in inner speech, do we produce words?  We certainly talk as though we do.  How can we say something in inner speech, if we produce no words? Where are the words we bring …

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Introduction to the Symposium Daniel Gregory Introduction Produce this sentence in inner speech (i.e., in your ‘inner voice’ or your ‘silent monologue’, as it is also sometimes known): ‘I think, therefore I am’. At the moment you produced that sentence in your mind, was it true? Setting aside the …

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This week, we’re excited to have a series of posts about inner speech, guest edited by Daniel Gregory! We have four great posters, Peter Langland-Hassan, Wade Munroe, Marta Jorba, and Daniel. We’ll have an intro post from Daniel today, then one post each day the rest of the week. Join …

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A guest post from Jack Copeland: If the ultra-secret logic machine they called Colossus shortened the Second World War by 6 months—and it was probably more—then 3 or 4 million lives were saved. Read about Colossus in “The Computer That Helped Win World War II”, an open access article in …

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