About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Jean Nicod Prize laureates, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Daniel Kahneman, Martin Seligman, Jerry Fodor, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Donald Davidson, Elizabeth Loftus, David Premack, Robert Sternberg, Endel Tulving, Jon Elster, Tyler Burge, Ray Jackendoff, Walter Mischel, George Armitage Miller, Stephen Stich, Dominic W. Massaro, Claude Steele, John Perry, Anne Treisman, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, John Robert Anderson, Zenon Pylyshyn, James McGaugh, Elizabeth Spelke, Gilbert Harman, Anthony Greenwald, Elissa L. Newport, Keith Holyoak, Stephen Grossberg, Michael Gazzaniga, Ruth Millikan, Rochel Gelman, Robert A. Rescorla, Michael Tomasello, William Kaye Estes, Martha Farah, Kim Sterelny, Geoffrey Loftus, Michael Posner, R. Duncan Luce, Fred Dretske, George Sperling, John Gabrieli, Nancy Kanwisher, Leslie Ungerleider, Herbert H. Clark, Carol Fowler, Saul Sternberg, Hans Kamp, Larry Squire, Brian Wandell, James McClelland, Linda B. Smith, Lila R. Gleitman, Henry L. Roediger III, Marlene Behrmann, Nora Newcombe, Nelson Cowan, Helen Neville, Robert A. Bjork, Susan Carey, Henry Gleitman, Roberta Klatzky, Lynn Nadel, Dedre Gentner, Gordon H. Bower, Carolyn Rovee-Collier, C. Randy Gallistel, Rumelhart Prize. Excerpt: Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He holds the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas. He is known for his provocative and sometimes polemical style of argumentation. Fodor argues that mental states, such as beliefs and desires, are relations between individuals and ment...
