In critical condition : polemical essays on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind /

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 McD...

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Main Author: Fodor, Jerry A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Series:Representation and mind
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"A Bradford book."
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 219 pages).
ISBN:0585078092
9780585078090
026256128X
9780262561280
9780262272896
026227289X
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/3696.001.0001