The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.
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
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
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
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
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 …
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
I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are fo…
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
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 …
On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for. - Jerry Fodor
On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.
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
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…
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers. - Jerry Fodor
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
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 hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist…
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