psychosemantics

Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev Vygotsky, Alexei Leontiev, and Alexander Luria.

1997, Diane F. Halpern, Alexander E. Voiskounsky, States of Mind, →ISBN, page 21

Psychosemantics is the theory of what it is in virtue of which our thoughts refer to (parts of) the world; if traditional, linguistic semantics is the theory of word-world relations, the psychosemantics is intended to be the analogous theory of thought-world relations. Although the topic of psychosemantics might, at first blush, seem to be remote from the present concerns about color ontology, it has sometimes been alleged that the argument from perceptual variation that we have been considering depends in a certain way on psychosemantic matters -- or, at least, on the unsatisfactory status of extant psychsemantic theorizing.

2009, Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology, →ISBN, page viii

Psychosemantics argues from the practical indispensability of folk psychology to the need to be "realist" about mental representations.

2013, Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner, Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN, page 403

So I am not going to rehearse my alternative and the reasons for it, but rather explore and criticize the sources of the psychosemantics of thinking.

2014, Radu J. Bogdan, Grounds for Cognition: How Goal-guided Behavior Shapes the Mind, →ISBN