Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Release : 1975
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Language of Thought by : Jerry A. Fodor
Download or read book The Language of Thought written by Jerry A. Fodor. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to buttress the notion of internal representation from a philosophical viewpoint, and to determine those characteristics of this conceptual construct using the empirical data available from linguistics and cognitive psychology.