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Jerry Alan Fodor (/ ˈ f oʊ d ər /; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
Jerry Fodor was one of the most important philosophers of mind of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In addition to exerting an enormous influence on virtually all parts of the literature in the philosophy of mind since 1960, Fodor’s work had a significant impact on the development of the cognitive sciences.
May 28, 2019 · In the 1970s, LOTH underwent a dramatic revival. The watershed was publication of Jerry Fodor’s The Language of Thought (1975). Fodor argued abductively: our current best scientific theories of psychological activity postulate Mentalese; we therefore have good reason to accept that Mentalese exists.
Dec 1, 2017 · Renowned Rutgers scholar Jerry Fodor, typically seen as one of the most important and influential philosophers of mind of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, died November 29 at his home in New York City after a long illness.
Nov 30, 2017 · By Margalit Fox. Nov. 30, 2017. Jerry A. Fodor, one of the world’s foremost philosophers of mind, who brought the workings of 20th-century computer technology to bear on ancient questions about...
Dec 6, 2017 · Wed 6 Dec 2017 12.09 EST. Last modified on Thu 21 Dec 2017 17.00 EST. The philosopher Jerry Fodor, who has died aged 82, was the leading exponent of the philosophy of mind in a period when it...
Jerry Fodor’s Enduring Critique of Neo-Darwinism (The New Yorker) Fodor was voted the most influential philosopher of mind since World War II. The London Review of Books ; The Man Who Hated Relativism by Geoffrey Pullum; Jerry Fodor, philosopher of the mind and cognitive psychologist: the possibility of a scientific psychology by José E ...
