Jerry A Fodor: 3 books

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain....

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property. In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the “meaning” of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions...

Organizzati secondo un criterio cronologico e concettuale, i contributi di Jerry A. Fodor presentati in questa raccolta affrontano alcune delle questioni più scottanti della filosofia della mente e della scienza cognitiva contemporanee.