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

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 229 pages
• Published by: The MIT Press January 31, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 026256128X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262561280
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 10.9 ounces

Product Review


"These wonderfully written and frequently profound essays represent Fodor at his critical, iconoclastic and humorous best—and it's pretty hard to get much better than that."
—Stephen Schiffer, Department of Philosophy, New York University

Product Description
In this book Jerry 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. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture, the nature of concepts, and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a version of the Representational Theory of Mind that blends Intentional Realism, Computational Reductionism, Nativism, and Semantic Atomism.