RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science (MIT Press)
By Jerry A. Fodor.
Description
These essays will shape discussion in the philosophy of psychology for years to come.A collection of eleven essays dealing with methodological and empirical issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, Representations convincingly connects philosophical speculation to concrete empirical research.One of the outstanding methodological issues dealt with is the status of functionalism considered as an alternative to behavioristic and physicalistic accounts. of mental states and properties. The other issue is the status of reductionism considered as an account of the relation betwe...
ISBN(s)
0262560275, 9780262560276
