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Hume? Yes, David Hume, that's who Jerry Fodor looks to for help in advancing our understanding of the mind. Fodor claims his Treatise of Human Nature as the foundational document of cognitive science: it launched the project of constructing an empirical psychology on the basis of a representational theory of mind. Going back to this work after more than 250 years we find that Hume is remarkably perceptive about the components and structure tha...

Ernie Lepore and Jerry Fodor have published a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind, they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system. Fodor and Lepore argue that ...

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, the idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain, since the 1970s this has been at the centre of debate about how the mind works. No one who studies the mind can ignore Fodor's views, expressed in his coruscating and provocative style.

The renowned philosopher Jerry Fodor, a leading figure in the study of the mind for more than twenty years, presents a strikingly original theory on the basic constituents of thought. He suggests that the heart of cognitive science is its theory of concepts, and that cognitive scientists have gone badly wrong in many areas because their assumptions about concepts have been mistaken. Fodor argues compellingly for an atomistic theory of concepts...

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Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language.

This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind.This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind. The first seven essays are philosophical pieces that focus on mental representation and the foundations of intentionality, these are followed by four psycho...

A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field.

In questo libro Fodor esamina lo stato delle odierne scienze della mente. E le conclusioni cui perviene sono radicali: contro la retorica ottimistica di chi sostiene che la scienza cognitiva sarebbe ormai in grado di svelarci "come funziona la mente" (riferimento a un fortunato libro di Steven Pinker), Fodor argomenta che "la mente non funziona così". La realtà nuda e cruda, a suo giudizio, è che in relazione ad alcuni fenomeni mentali la scie...

In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the "meaning¿ of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals put forward to answer these questions and find that none of them is remotely defensible.

El conocido filósofo e iniciador de la psicología cognitiva, Jerry Fodor, una de las figuras principales de la investigación sobre la mente desde hace más de veinte años, presenta en esta obra una teoría muy original sobre los componentes básicos de nuestro pensamiento. Fodor sugiere que su teoría de los conceptos es el núcleo de la ciencia cognitiva y que los expertos se equivocaron en muchos aspectos porque sus supuestos acerca de los concep...

Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian.

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind.

A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field.

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