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What is the nature of mental states?
In his article Propositional Attitudes (1978), Jerry Fodor introduced the idea that mental states are relations between individuals and mental representations.
What was the first alternative hypothesis to the idea that mental states are relations between individuals and mental representations?
Jerry Fodor considers two alternative hypotheses. The first completely denies the relational character of mental states
What was the second alternative hypothesis to the idea that mental states are relations between individuals and mental representations?
Jerry Fodor's second alternative hypothesis considers mental states as two-place relations.
Where was Jerry Fodor educated?
Jerry Fodor received his A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1956, where he wrote a senior thesis on Soren Kierkegaard, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1960.
Did Jerry Fodor teach anywhere?
Jerry Fodor was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1986 to 1988 he was a full professor at the CUNY

Question: Is there anything else of interest I should know?
Self-contained rewrite: Is there anything else of interest I should know other than Jerry Fodor's hypotheses about the nature of mental states, Fodor's education, and Fodor as a teacher?