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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition ...

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Holism

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by Jerry A Fodor

The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that the content of a concept depends on the entire ...

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Lot 2: The Language of Thought Revisited

Lot 2: The Language of Thought Revisited more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the ...

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Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind

Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language.

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The language of thought

The language of thought more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

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Hume Variations

Hume Variations more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

Hume! Yes, David Hume, that's who Jerry Fodor looks to for help in advancing our understanding of the mind. Fodor claims his Treatise of Human Nature as the foundational document of cognitive science: it launched the project of constructing an empirical psychology on the basis of a representational theory of mind. Going back to this work after ...

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The Modularity of Mind

The Modularity of Mind more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind.

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Oxford Cognitive Science Series

Oxford Cognitive Science Series more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

The General Editors are: Martin Davies, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK; James Higginbotham, Professor of General Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK; John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK; Christopher Peacocke, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of ...

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A Theory of Content and Other Essays

A Theory of Content and Other Essays more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind. The first seven essays are philosophical pieces that focus on mental representation and the foundations of intentionality; they are followed by four psychological essays on cognitive architecture. In his ...

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The ELM and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics

The ELM and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

This text provides a discussion of semantic issues about mental representation, with special attention to issues raised by Frege's problem, twin cases, and the putative indeterminacy of reference. The book extends and revises a view of the relation between mind and meaning that the author has been developing since his 1975 book "The Language of ...

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The Compositionality Papers more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor (Editor), Ernie Lepore (Editor)

Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore have produced a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit their ...

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Compass American Guide Pennsylvania more books like this

by Douglas Root, Fodor's, Jerry Irwin (Photographer)

The award-winning guides offer comprehensive travel information on the individual cities, states and provinces of the United States and Canada. This addition to the series focuses on Pennsylvania.

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The structure of language; readings in the philosophy of language more books like this

by Jerry A. Fodor (Editor), Jerrold J. Katz

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In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind more books like this

by Jerry Fodor

Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: the trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book, Fodor constrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, ...

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Compass American Guides: Pennsylvania, 2nd Edition more books like this

by Douglas L Root, Fodor's, Jerry Irwin (Photographer)

The "Compass American Guides" offer comprehensive travel information on the individual cities, states and provinces of the United States and Canada. This addition to the series focuses on Pennsylvania. The informed writing is by local journalists who are long-time residents of the areas they cover. The title includes information on the historical ...

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Psychological explanation; an introduction to the philosophy of psychology more books like this

by Jerry A. Fodor

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The psychology of language: an introduction to psycholinguistics and generative grammar more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

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Concepts: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

Oxford Cognitive Science Series General Editors: Martin Davies, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, James Higginbotham , Professor of General Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK, John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK, Christopher Peacocke, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical ...

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Conceptos - Donde La Ciencia Cognitiva Se Equivoco

by Jerry A. Fodor

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Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science more books like this

by Jerry A Fodor

These essays will shape discussion in the philosophy of psychology for years to come.

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Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn more books like this

by Don Dedrick (Editor), Lana Trick (Editor), Jerry Fodor (Introduction by)

'Classical cognitive science has found itself in something of a pickle; a pickle that's so deep (if I may mix a metaphor) that most of its practitioners haven't so much as noticed that they are in it. What's so good about Pylyshyn - in particular what's so good about Pylyshyn's recent work - is that maybe, just possibly maybe, it shows us the way ...

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L'Esprit, Áa Ne Marche Pas Comme Áa

by Jerry Fodor

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La Modularité De L'Esprit. Essai Sur La Psychologie Des Facultés

by Jerry A. Fodor

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Modularidad de La Mente

by Jerry A. Fodor

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The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology more books like this

by Jerry A. Fodor

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind.

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