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Jerry Fodor
Also known as Jerry Alan Fodor
American philosopher (1935–2017)
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- De Vienne à Cambridge
- Gli errori di Darwin
- Elm and the Expert
- In Critical Condition
- A theory of content and other essays
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Jerry Alan Fodor (/ˈfoʊdər/ FOH-dər; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, and he is recognized as having had "an enormous influence on virtually every portion of the philosophy of mind literature since 1960." At the time of his death in 2017, he held the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Rutgers University, and had taught previously at the City University of New York Graduate Center and MIT.
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