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

by Jerry A. Fodor

Book Overview

In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth. In fact, he claims, cognitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262561468
• ISBN13: 9780262561464
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher