The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way

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The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way is a philosophical critique by Jerry Fodor challenging mainstream computational and evolutionary psychology accounts of how the human mind operates.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
philosophy of mind book
argues that central cognition is not modular
that evolutionary psychology overgeneralizes from modular input systems
that global properties of belief fixation resist modular explanation
that human reasoning cannot be fully captured by current computational models
author Jerry Fodor NERFINISHED
buildsOn The Modularity of Mind NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes evolutionary psychology accounts of the mind
mainstream computational psychology
massively modular models of cognition
strong adaptationist explanations of cognition
field cognitive science
philosophy of cognitive science
genre cognitive science
philosophy
philosophy of mind
hasPerspective critical of mainstream cognitive science
hasSubject cognition
mind
rational inference
scientific explanation of the mind
influencedBy Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED
cognitive psychology
philosophy of language
language English
mainTopic cognitive architecture
computational theory of mind
evolutionary psychology
global cognitive processes
mental representation
modularity of mind
rationality
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
targetAudience cognitive scientists
philosophers of mind
psychologists
students of philosophy of mind

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