Belief Quote by Jerry Fodor

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

...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

...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

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

Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.

— Jerry Fodor

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

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

— Jerry Fodor

“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

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

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

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

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

— Jerry Fodor