In critical condition
Subtitle: polemical essays on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind
By: Jerry Fodor.
Series: Representation and mind
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive science.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index.
"A Bradford book."