# Inner Speech –New Voices Introduction **Opening (not a real abstract):** In another possible world, not far from our own, inner speech occupies center stage in contemporary philosophical psychology. Researchers there see the “little voice in the head” as the ultimate theoretical Rubik’s Cube: an introspectively familiar phenomenon—more common than a house sparrow—where independent puzzles intersect, and where answering one promises to disrupt solutions to the others. Inner speech, they observe, involves language​. ​And​ ​linguistic utterances are typically held to express thoughts. Yet inner speech—sometimes called “thinking in words”—is arguably a form of thought in its own right. So, then, are some uses of language cases of thinking? And are some cases of thinking also cases of expressing one’s thoughts? Our grip on the distinction between thought and its expression begins to slip. **Authors:** [[Inner Speech: New Voices]]