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A theory of content and other essays / Jerry A. Fodor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fodor, Jerry A.
- Series:
- A Bradford book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Content (Psychology).
- Mental representation.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind.
- Contents:
- Fodor' guide to mental representation: the intelligent auntie's vade-mecum
- Semantics, Wisconsin style
- A theory of content, I: the problem
- A theory of content, II: the theory
- Making mind matter more
- Substitution arguments and the individuation of beliefs
- Stephen Schiffer's Dark night of the soul: a review of remnants of meaning
- Précis of the modularity of mind
- Why should the mind be modular?
- Observation reconsidered
- Appendix: A reply to Churchland's ''perceptual plasticity and theoretical neutrality"
- References
- Index of names.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "A Bradford book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28799-4
- 0-585-00283-5
- OCLC:
- 60806998
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