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9780262561464

Mind Doesn't Work That Way : The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262561464

  • ISBN10:

    0262561468

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: MIT PRESS

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jerry Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Introduction: Still Snowing 1(8)
Varieties of Nativism
9(14)
Syntax and Its Discontents
23(18)
Two Ways That You Probably Can't Explain Abduction
41(14)
How Many Modules Would You Say There Are?
55(24)
Darwin among the Modules
79(22)
Appendix: Why We Are So Good at Catching Cheaters 101(4)
Notes 105(16)
References 121(4)
Author Index 125

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