Psychosemantics
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Psychosemantics is a philosophical work by Jerry Fodor that develops and defends a causal, computational theory of mental representation and meaning.
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| addressesProblem |
indeterminacy of content
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problem of misrepresentation ⓘ relation between syntax and semantics in cognition ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain how mental states can have determinate content
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naturalize intentionality in physicalistic terms ⓘ |
| author |
Jerry A. Fodor
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Jerry Fodor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
behaviorism
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conceptual role semantics ⓘ instrumentalism about mental states ⓘ traditional descriptivist theories of meaning ⓘ verificationism ⓘ |
| defendsPosition |
naturalistic semantics
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representational theory of mind ⓘ semantic externalism ⓘ |
| field |
cognitive science
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philosophy ⓘ |
| genre | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
asymmetric dependence
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computational architecture of the mind ⓘ informational semantics ⓘ methodological solipsism ⓘ narrow content vs. wide content ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
physicalist approach to the mind
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realist view of mental content ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary debates on mental content
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naturalistic theories of representation ⓘ philosophy of cognitive science ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jerry Fodor's earlier work on the language of thought
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causal theories of reference ⓘ computational models of cognition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
causal theory of content
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computational theory of mind ⓘ content externalism NERFINISHED ⓘ intentionality ⓘ meaning ⓘ mental representation ⓘ naturalization of content ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| notableFor | systematic defense of a causal, computational theory of mental representation and meaning ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| proposesTheory |
causal, informational theory of mental content
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computational-representational theory of mind ⓘ |
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