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9780199548774 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 15, 2008, cover price $51.00
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9780199588015 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 10, 2010), cover price $27.95
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9788420665061 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: EL LENGUAJE DEL PENSAMIENTO
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9780199264056 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 2, 2003, cover price $43.95
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9780199287338 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 2, 2006, cover price $44.95
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9780199252169 | Clarendon Pr, October 24, 2002, cover price $60.00
In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth. In fact, he claims, cognitive scientists do not really know much yet about how the mind works (the book's title refers to Steve Pinker's How the Mind Works). Fodor's primary aim is to explore the relationship among computational and modular theories of mind, nativism, and evolutionary psychology. Along the way, he explains how Chomsky's version of nativism differs from that of the widely received New Synthesis approach. He concludes that although we have no grounds to suppose that most of the mind is modular, we have no idea how nonmodular cognition could work. Thus, according to Fodor, cognitive science has hardly gotten started. (view table of contents)
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9780262062121 | Bradford Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian.
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9780262561464 | Bradford Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $20.00
Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: the trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book, Fodor constrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the "Times Literary Supplement", the "London Review of Books" or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture, the nature of concepts, and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a version of the representational theory of mind that blends intentional realism, computational reductionism, nativism and semantic atomism.
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9780262061988 | Mit Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: the trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it.
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9780262561280 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, March 1, 2000), cover price $20.00
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9780198236375 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 9, 1998, cover price $82.00
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9780198236368 | Clarendon Pr, April 9, 1998, cover price $65.00
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9788449302947, titled "El olmo y el experto / the Elm and the Expert" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, December 16, 1996, cover price $21.95
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9780262061704 | Mit Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $22.00
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9780262560931 | Bradford Books, August 28, 1995, cover price $17.00
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9780262061308 | Mit Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $40.00
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9780262560696 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $28.00
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9780631181927 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1992, cover price $36.95
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9780631181934 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1992, cover price $51.95
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9780262560528 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, September 7, 1989), cover price $26.00
A collection of eleven essays dealing with methodological and empirical issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, Representations convincingly connects philosophical speculation to concrete empirical research. One of the outstanding methodological issues dealt with is the status of functionalism considered as an alternative to behavioristic and physicalistic accounts. of mental states and properties. The other issue is the status of reductionism considered as an account of the relation between the psychological and physical sciences. The first chapters present the main lines of argument which have made functionalism the currently favored philosophical approach to ontology of the mental. The outlines of a psychology of propositional attitudes which emerges from consideration of current developments in cognitive science are contained in the remaining essays. Not all of these essays are re-presentations. The new introductory essay seeks to present an overview and gives some detailed proposals about the contribution that functionalism makes to the solutions of problems about intentionality. The concluding essay, also not previously published, is a sustained examination of the relation between theories about the structure of concepts and theories about how they are learned. Finally, the essay "Three cheers for propositional attitudes", a critical examination of some of D. C. Dennett's ideas, has been completely rewritten for this volume. A Bradford Book.
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9780262060790 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of eleven essays dealing with methodological and empirical issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, Representations convincingly connects philosophical speculation to concrete empirical research.
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9780262560276 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, March 29, 1983), cover price $40.00
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9780674510302 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 22, 1980, cover price $32.50
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9780394306636 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1968, cover price $7.53
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