Saying What One Thinks

Léa Salje (Associate Professor, University of Leeds)

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Oxford University Press
19 June 2025

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy: aesthetics; Social & political philosophy

Saying what one thinks can be difficult; sometimes one knows that a thought is there, but it takes time and effort to find its proper articulation. This book is about articulatory self-knowledge, or the sort of knowledge about one's own mind that results from successful attempts to articulate evasive thoughts of this kind. Rather than account for this phenomenon as mere verbal blockage or hermeneutical impoverishment, Lea Salje argues that the obstacle to articulation in these cases has to do with the representational metaphysics of the thought. When it first occurs, the thought has the wrong representational format to serve as the content of a sentence -- work must be done on it before it can be uttered aloud. What results is a picture of a little explored form of psychological self-knowledge that reveals hidden parts of one's mind to oneself even as one goes about creating the thought in its new, articulated form. The final parts of the book explore the role of conversation in drawing out articulations of this kind, and the possible expression of thoughts in art. By the end of Saying What One Thinks, articulatory self-knowledge no longer looks like a mere quirk of our psychology, but emerges as a central feature of distinctively human cognition.

By: Léa Salje (Associate Professor University of Leeds)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN: 9780198914181
ISBN 10: 0198914180
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Léa Salje is a philosopher of mind. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, which she joined in 2015 after completing her PhD at University College London.

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Saying What One Thinks

Léa Salje (Associate Professor, University of Leeds)

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