The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
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