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Mind Doesn't Work That Way The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0262561468

ISBN-13: 9780262561464

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Jerry A. Fodor

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This text presents a critical examination of the computational theory of the mind, and argues that cognitive scientists have only just started to understand mental processes.
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Frank Biermann is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Sciences at VU University Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Earth System Governance at Lund University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of fifteen books, including Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies (coedited with Bernd Siebenh�ner) and Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered (coedited with Philipp Pattberg), both published by the MIT Press.Jerry A. Fodor is State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (MIT Press) and other books.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Still Snowing
Varieties of Nativism
Syntax and Its Discontents
Two Ways That You Probably Can't Explain Abduction
How Many Modules Would You Say There Are?
Darwin among the Modules
Why We Are So Good at Catching Cheaters
Notes
References
Author Index