Jerry Fodor
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican philosopher (1935-2017)
Jerry Alan Fodor was an American philosopher and the author of works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
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The idea of modularity of mind was presaged by Franz Joseph Gall's 19th century phrenology movement.
An illustration of multiple realizability. M stands for mental and P stand for physical. The diagram shows that more than one P can instantiate one M, but not vice versa. Causal relations between states are represented by the arrows (M1 goes to M2, etc.).Awards 3
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David ChalmersAlso won Jean Nicod Prize
George Armitage MillerAlso won Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Donald DavidsonAlso won Jean Nicod Prize
George LakoffAlso won Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Daniel DennettAlso won Jean Nicod Prize
Douglas HofstadterAlso won Fellow of the Cognitive Science SocietyAbout this person
Jerry Alan Fodor was an American philosopher and the author of works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, and he is recognized as having had "an enormous influence on virtually every portion of the philosophy of mind literature since 1960." At the time of his death in 2017, he held the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Rutgers University, and had taught previously at the City University of New York Graduate Center and MIT.
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