Psychosemantics: The problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind (Explorations in cognitive science)

By Jerry A. Fodor

Book Overview

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its position Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Modularity of Mind and RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science. This book is included in the series Explorations in Cognitive Science, edited by Margaret A. Boden. A Bradford Book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061066
• ISBN13: 9780262061063
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 0.6" x 6.1"