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Jerry Fodor Quotes

1935–2017 United States

Jerry Alan Fodor (April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher, cognitive scientist, and author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas.

United States
Philosophers

Also known as: Jerry A. Fodor

Random Jerry Fodor quote

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Our best scientific theory about the mind is better than empiricism; but, in all sorts of ways, it’s still not very good.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

Modularity of Mind (1983)

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.

Fodor (1998)

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats... surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Modularity of Mind (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jerry Fodor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.