Jerry Fodor

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gptkb:professor
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Jean_Nicod_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1935-04-22
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:deathDate 2017-11-29
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Newark,_New_Jersey
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Hilary_Putnam
gptkbp:employer gptkb:City_University_of_New_York
gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:Rutgers_University
gptkbp:field cognitive science
philosophy of language
philosophy of mind
philosophy of psychology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Jerry Fodor
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gptkb:Christopher_Peacocke
gptkb:David_Papineau
gptkb:Fred_Dretske
gptkb:Georges_Rey
gptkb:Jesse_Prinz
gptkb:Paul_M._Churchland
gptkb:Peter_Carruthers
gptkb:Stephen_Stich
gptkb:Susan_Carey
gptkb:Tyler_Burge
gptkb:Zenon_Pylyshyn
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gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
gptkb:Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
gptkb:Gilbert_Harman
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gptkb:British_Academy
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableIdea asymmetric dependency
informational semantics
language of thought hypothesis
modularity of mind
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Concepts:_Where_Cognitive_Science_Went_Wrong
gptkb:LOT_2:_The_Language_of_Thought_Revisited
gptkb:Modularity_of_Mind
gptkb:Psychosemantics
gptkb:The_Elm_and_the_Expert
gptkb:The_Language_of_Thought
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