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
Links:https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3696.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy
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-Ressource (x, 219 Seiten)
ISBN:026227289X
026256128X
0585078092
9780262272896
9780262561280
9780585078090