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Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University

From the London Review dated 24 May 2007

Headaches have themselves

Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson et al Buy this book

Consciousness is all the rage just now. It boasts new journals of its very own, from which learned articles overflow. Neuropsychologists snap its picture (in colour) with fMRI machines, and probe with needles for its seat in the brain. At all seasons, and on many continents, interdisciplinary conferences about consciousness draw together bizarre motleys that include philosophers, psychologists, phenomenologists, brain scientists, MDs, computer scientists, the Dalai Lama, novelists, neurologists, graphic artists, priests, gurus and (always) people who used to do physics. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

Lot 2: The Language of Thought Revisited (2008)
Hume Variations (2003)
Compositionality Papers by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore (2002)
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (2000)
In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind (2000)
Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (1998)
The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics (1994)
Holism: A Consumer Update edited by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore (1994)
A Theory of Content and Other Essays (1990)
Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind (1987)
The Modularity of Mind (1983)