tailieunhanh - In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind

n this book Jerry Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture, the nature of concepts, and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a version of the Representational Theory of Mind that blends Intentional. | n Critical Condition Polemical Eddayd on Cognitive Science and the Phllodophy of Alind Copyrighted Material In Critical Condition P lfmical Ej. dy. i n cognitive Science and fbe Pbitfjwpby f Mi Ạ Jerry Fodor Doing philosophy according to Jerry Fodor. is like piloting The trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book. Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists including John McDowell. Christopher Peacocke. Paul Churchland. Daniel Dennett. Paul Smolensky and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the Time. Literary Supplentent the IstnAm Hevir of Hooke or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture the nature of concepts. and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a version of the representational theory of mind that blends intentional realism computational reductionism. nativism. and semantic atomism. These wonderfully written and frequently profound essays represent Fodor at his critical iconoclastic. and humorous best and it s pretty hard to get much better than that. No serious student of cognitive science or the philosophy of mind can afford not to learn from these incisively provocative attacks on Fodor s intellectual ovals and from the running elaborations of his own innovative groundbreaking and extremely influential views. This is an important book. Stephen Schiffer. Department of Philosophy. New York University Jerry Fodor IS Professor in the Department of Philosophy and at the Center for Cognitive Science. Rutgers University. His most recent books with The MIT Press are The Elm miJtbe Expert Alenlaleoe anA lh Semantics A Theory of Content a nA Other and Poyeboeemantice The Problem of Aleaninp in the Philosophy of Al in A. Representation and Mind series A Bradford Book The MIT Press .