Mind and Language：Collected Papers from 1995 International Workshop on Mind & Language

The papers in this volume were presented at “Mind and Language, An International Workshop,” which was held at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 8-9, 1995. Mind and language have long been a research focus for the philosophy section of our institute. This workshop followed our 1993 International Symposium on Mind and Cognition, and we expect to hold a conference on mind and world in the near future.

　　This volume contains the keynote speech by Ovid J. L. Tzeng (“Origin of Cerebral Lateralization of Language: A Neurolinguistic Perspective”), and invited paper by Alice ter Meulen (“Chronoscopes in Dynamic Aspect Trees”), and five contributed papers by Taiwanese scholars from different disciplines: Fu Chang (“A Theory of Consciousness“), Allen Y-H. Houng (“Can Consciousness be Explained Naturalistically?”), Eric M. Peng (“Mental Representation and Cognitive Science”), Norman Yujen Teng (“What is the Background? The Bodily Basis of Mental Representation”), and Jih-Ching Ho (“Truth-Conditions and Communication”). All of the contributed papers were formally reviewed for publication.