Publication

1998 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

54,750 words, Guess

Page Count

219 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC128/.2
  • LCCBD418.3 .F625 1998

Description

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 contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, and Richard Dawkins. Fodor constructs a version of the representational theory of mind that blends intentional realism, computational reductionism, nativism, and semantic atomism.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Representation and mind

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