In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind (Representation and Mind)

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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 contrasts 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. Fodor constructs a version of the representational theory of mind that blends intentional realism computational reductionism nativism and semantic atomism.