Jerry Fodor
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityUniversity of OxfordColumbia University
- Awards
- 🏆 Jean Nicod Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Hilary Putnam
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Edward Stabler📖 David Caplan
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"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 determining which sequence of words a given utteranc…"
"If 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 me."
"The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know."
"From the point of view of semantics, errors must be accidents: if in the extension of "horse" there are no cows, then it cannot be required for the meaning of "horse" that cows be called horses. On th…"
"FACULTY PSYCHOLOGY is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By I mean, roughly , the view that many fundamentally different kind…"
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Timeline
1935
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Birth2017
Died
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