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    Jerry Alan Fodor (/ˈfoʊdər/ FOH-dər; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields...
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  • philosophy of mind and cognitive science, forwarded by American philosopher Jerry Fodor. It describes the nature of thought as possessing "language-like" or...
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  • definitions of "module" have been proposed by different authors. According to Jerry Fodor, the author of Modularity of Mind, a system can be considered 'modular'...
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  • Hungary Janet Dean Fodor (born 1942), American psycholinguist Jerry Fodor (1935–2017), American author and philosopher Josef von Fodor (1843–1901), Hungarian...
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  • What Darwin Got Wrong is a 2010 book by philosopher Jerry Fodor and cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in which the authors criticize Charles...
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  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Jerry Fodor, considered one of the fathers of the computational theory of mind, criticized the book. Fodor wrote a book called The...
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  • television writer, Fodor has developed pilots for AMC and Starz. Fodor is the daughter of the cognitive scientist and philosopher Jerry Fodor and the linguist...
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  • and developed by his PhD student, philosopher, and cognitive scientist Jerry Fodor in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was vigorously disputed in analytic...
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  • their relation to physics, is unresolved in the philosophy of science. Jerry Fodor, for instance, has argued for strong autonomy, concluding that the special...
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    Economics. She then went to Rutgers University where she worked with Jerry Fodor, graduating with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2003. Schneider was an assistant...
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  • promoted by Jerry Fodor (1980). He later went on to distinguish this thesis from another that he called methodological individualism. Fodor's motivation...
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  • everywhere" by Jerry Fodor - a review of C. Hughes's book Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity at the London Review of Books (Fodor goes into several...
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  • beliefs, including as representations of ways that the world could be (Jerry Fodor), as dispositions to act as if certain things are true (Roderick Chisholm)...
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  • Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo Church Jerry Fodor Kurt Gödel David Lewis Jaegwon Kim Saul Kripke Richard Rorty Nathan Salmon...
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  • transitions between the computational states." Philosophers such as Jerry Fodor have suggested various accounts of computation with the restriction that...
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  • according to Jerry Fodor they are modular in that they possess a number of characteristics Fodor argues constitute modularity. Fodor's list of features...
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  • the work of Paul Grice. Further, this view is closely associated with Jerry Fodor and his language of thought hypothesis. According to his argument, spoken...
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  • which defends Neo-Darwinism, stand at the forefront of this debate. Jerry Fodor criticizes natural selection. A.P. Martinich draws an analogy between...
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  • to or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr, and others. Postcognitivists challenge tenets within cognitivism...
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  • of Psychosemantics by Jerry Fodor". The Journal of Philosophy. 85 (7): 384–389 (389). doi:10.2307/2026956. JSTOR 2026956. Fodor is too wise to think his...
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    John Searle, known for his controversial Chinese room argument, and Jerry Fodor, who advocates functionalism. Others include David Chalmers, who advocates...
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  • McCauley, Patricia Kitcher, Andy Clark, William G. Lycan, William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lapore, Antonio R. Damasio and Hanna Damasio, John Marshall...
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  • computational theory of mind, associated with philosophers Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor. Examples of physical symbol systems include: Formal logic: the symbols...
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  • the adequacy of the Turing test." Computationalism is associated with Jerry Fodor and Hilary Putnam, and is held by Allen Newell, Zenon Pylyshyn and Steven...
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    influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree". Jerry Fodor wrote of Hume's Treatise that it is "the foundational document of cognitive...
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  • The latest version is associated with philosophers Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor. This question bears on our earlier questions: if the human brain is...
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    John Cooper T. M. Scanlon Stanley Cavell Alexander Nehamas Ernest Sosa Jerry Fodor Seyla Benhabib Kwame Anthony Appiah Christine Korsgaard Robert Nozick...
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    and the Contingent A Priori: The Meter Stick Revisited" (Notre Dame). Jerry Fodor, "Water's water everywhere", London Review of Books, 21 October 2004...
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    Functional isomorphism implies multiple realizability.: 637  Putnam, Jerry Fodor, and others argued that along with being an effective argument against...
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    Backus, Derek Bickerton, Julian C. Boyd, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Everett, Jerry Fodor, Gilbert Harman, Marc Hauser, Norbert Hornstein, Niels Kaj Jerne, Donald...
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