Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of …

- Jerry Fodor

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

- Jerry Fodor

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be …

- Jerry Fodor

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist…

- Jerry Fodor

I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are fo…

- Jerry Fodor

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

- Jerry Fodor

There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the …

- Jerry Fodor

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

- Jerry Fodor

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to…

- Jerry Fodor