5 Quotes & Sayings By Jerry A Fodor

Jerry A. Fodor is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Read more

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received honorary doctorates from Morehead State University, Emory University, Bates College, Occidental College, Brigham Young University, Indiana University, Dalhousie University, Stony Brook University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Nanyang Technological University, and IUPUI. His research specialties are vision science and cognitive science.

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Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it’s clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn’t really philosophical to begin with. Jerry A. Fodor
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There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You’ll regret it if you don't. Jerry A. Fodor
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Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act. Jerry A. Fodor
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It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid. Jerry A. Fodor