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Jerry Alan Fodor was an American philosopher and university teacher born in New York City in 1935. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford. His doctoral advisor was Hilary Putnam. Fodor served as a faculty member at Rutgers University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the City University of New York. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His notable works include *Gli errori di Darwin*, *Elm and the Expert*, *In Critical Condition*, *De Vienne à Cambridge*, and *A theory of content and other essays*. Fodor received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Jean Nicod Prize. He was an atheist who spoke English. He died in Manhattan on November 29, 2017, from natural causes due to Parkinson's disease.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 47
Top works
- 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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Key facts
- Born
- Jerry Alan Fodor , ( 1935 -04-22 ) April 22, 1935, New York City, US
- Died
- November 29, 2017 (2017-11-29) (aged 82), New York City, US
- Awards
- Jean Nicod Prize (1993)
- Alma mater
- Columbia University , Princeton University
- Thesis
- The Uses of "Use": A Study in the Philosophy of Language (1960)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hilary Putnam
- Other advisor
- Sidney Morgenbesser
- Era
- 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic
- Institutions
- Rutgers University
- Main interests
- Philosophy of mind , Philosophy of language , Cognitive science , Rationalism , Cognitivism , Functionalism
- Notable ideas
- Modularity of mind , Language of thought
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Family name
- Fodor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Employer
- City University of New York
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Hilary Putnam
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Jerry Fodor.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1935-04-22
- date of death
- 2017-11-29
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- birth name
- Jerry Alan Fodor
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Life and career
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