In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind

by Jerry A. Fodor

Book Overview

Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: the trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book, Fodor constrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061988
• ISBN13: 9780262061988
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"