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Title: The Modularity of Mind by Jerry A. Fodor ISBN: 0-262-56025-9 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 06 April, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Stars down to Earth
Comment: Fodor usually writes the most arcane books in the cog sci set. The Language of Thought was so opaque that even Hilary Putnam couldn't understand it (circa Language and Learning by Piatelli-Palmarini, ed). This book is written in such a way that even lunkheads such as myself can get it. What he's saying in Psychosemantics I don't know either. But it's nice that he's written one popular philosophy book. When you take this book, together with Stephen Wolfram, you probably get the Language of Thought. When you add Richard Dawkins you get Steven Pinker. Not a bad piece of work.
Rating: 5
Summary: A CLASSIC WORK OF SCHOLARSHIP
Comment: Fodor's short book made "faculty psychology" respectable again and has generated a large literature in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. Fodor offers brilliant arguments that the mind has special-purpose perceptual and linguistic modules. A central thesis of Fodor's book is that these modules are "informationally encapsulated" -- that is, the modules do their work without being able to access the beliefs that the person has. Thus in an important sense perception is theory-neutral, because what you believe will not affect what you see, hear, etc. For a contrasting view, read chapter two of Paul Churchland's Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Perception. By the way, Fodor's book is brilliant, but don't look for the entertainingly malicious flashes of humor that typify many of his essays.
Rating: 5
Summary: Locus classicus in philosophy of psychology
Comment: This book really set the agenda in thinking about cognitive architecture for many approaches in thinking about the mind during the late 80s and 90s. In some ways, it is philosophical synthesis of concrete gains from research science in linguistics and cognitive psychology. But it also articulates the path down which much recent thinking has gone. The issue of modularity is getting hot now, especially with the business about evolutionary psychology. This and Fodor's _Psychosemantics_ are *the* texts of recent theoretical cognitive science (if you ask me). Oh, and it doesn't have too many obscurely humorous bits designed to confuse you, as some other of his books do.
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Title: The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology by Jerry Fodor ISBN: 0262561468 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science by Annette Karmiloff-Smith ISBN: 0262611147 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Language of Thought by Jerry A. Fodor, George A. Miller, D. Terence Langendoen ISBN: 0674510305 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1980 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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Title: Mapping the Mind : Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Susan A. Gelman ISBN: 0521429935 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (Oxford Cognitive Science Series) by Jerry A. Fodor ISBN: 0198236360 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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