Title: In critical condition
Subtitle: polemical essays on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Cognitive science, Philosophy of mind, Philosophie de l'esprit, Sciences cognitives, PHILOSOPHY, Mind & Body, Filosofie van de geest, Cognitie, Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy & Religion
LC classification: BD418.3 .F625 1998