Fodor
Subtitle: Language, Mind and Philosophy (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745624723
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Mind & Body; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; PHILOSOPHY, MODERN_20TH CENTURY; Philosophy / Modern; History & Surveys - General; Fodor, Jerry A
First sentence: Since the early 1960s Jerry Fodor has been engaged in developing a collection of distinct yet mutually reinforcing positions on a range of related issues and in doing so has set much of the agenda in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
Description: "Jerry Fodor is one of the most important philosophers of mind in recent decades. He has done much to set the agenda in this field and has had a significant influence on the development of cognitive science. Fodor's project is that of constructing a physicalist vindication of folk psychology and thereby paving the way for the development of a scientifically respectable intentional psychology. The centrepiece of his engagement in this project is a theory of the cognitive mind - namely, the computational theory of mind, which postulates the existence of a language of thought. Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy is a comprehensive study of Fodor's writings.

Individual chapters are devoted to each of the major issues raised by his work and contain extensive discussion of his relationships to key developments in cognitive science and to the views of such philosophical luminaries as Dennett, Davidson and Searle." "This accessible book will appeal to advanced level undergraduate students of philosophy and related disciplines. It will also be of great interest to professional philosophers and cognitive scientists."--Jacket.