The mind doesn't work that way
Subtitle: the scope and limits of computational psychology
By: Jerry Fodor.
Series: Representation and mind
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Cognitive science; Philosophy of mind; Nativism (Psychology)
Description: "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 that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth.

In fact, he claims, cognitive scientists do not really know much yet about how the mind works (the book's title refers to Steve Pinker's How the Mind Works).".

"Fodor's primary aim is to explore the relationship among nativism, computational and modular theories of mind, and evolutionary psychology. Along the way, he explains how Chomsky's version of nativism differs from that of the widely received New Synthesis approach. He concludes that although we have no grounds to suppose that most of the mind is modular, we have no idea how nonmodular cognition could work. Thus, according to Fodor, cognitive science has hardly gotten started."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.