期刊名称:Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
印刷版ISSN:1944-3676
出版年度:2014
卷号:9
期号:1
页码:7
出版社:Kansas State University Libraries
摘要:This paper discusses, from the point of view of the philosophy of psychology, recent behavioral and brain studies showing effects of the diversity of language vocabulary on color perception. I examine the alternative between two different interpretations of these so-called whorfian effects, namely habitual or deep whorfianism, and shallow whorfianism. I argue that at the moment the evidence underdetermines both interpretations and the question is open. I also clarify that shallow whorfianism is not a synonym for ‘trivial whorfianism’, as some authors have suggested, but rather makes a case for the online and situated nature of human cognition.
关键词:color perception; whorfianism; philosophy of psychology; cognitive differences