Jerry Fodor

"This monograph is about the current status of the program; not so much its evidential status as what the program is and where it does, and doesn't, seem natural to try to apply it. Specifically I want…"

"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…"

"Philosophers who have wanted to banish the ghost from the machine have usually sought to do so by showing that truths about behavior can sometimes, and in some sense, logically implicate truths about …"

"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…"

"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…"

"he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system … simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virt…"