Psychosemantics

The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind

By: Jerry A. Fodor

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Paperback | 7 September 1989

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Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its positionJerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Modularity of Mind and RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science. This book is included in the series Explorations in Cognitive Science, edited by Margaret A. Boden. A Bradford Book.

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"(Fodor's) aim in this book is to protect folk psychology, as a solid basis for mental science, from a range of objections that have been brought against it in recent years, mainly by philosophers. He does so with verve, clarity and wit, generally getting the better of his revisionary opponents. The book is vintage Fodor: clever, stimulating, challenging, infuriating." Colin McGinn, Nature

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Preface
Introduction: The Persistence of the Attitudes
Individualism and Supervenience
Meaning Holism
Meaning and the World Order
Epilogue Creation Myth
Appendix Why There Still Has to be a Language of Thought
Notes
References
Author Index
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