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.