title: Conscious thinking: language or elimination? creator: Carruthers, Peter subject: Philosophy of Language subject: Philosophy of Mind description: Do we conduct our conscious propositional thinking in natural language? Or is such language only peripherally related to human conscious thought-processes? In this paper I shall present a partial defence of the former view, by arguing that the only real alternative is eliminativism about conscious propositional thinking. Following some introductory remarks, I shall state the argument for this conclusion, and show how that conclusion can be true. Thereafter I shall defend each of the three main premises in turn. publisher: Blackwell contributor: Patterson, Sarah date: 1998 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/1203/1/Concthnk.htm identifier: Carruthers, Peter (1998) Conscious thinking: language or elimination? [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/1203/