Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor

university teacher
philosopher
philosophy
🇺🇸United States
⚛️Atheism

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.

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Lifespan
1935 – 2017
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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

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  • 1935

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  • 2017

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