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Jerry Fodor Quotes

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for Picture Quote #1
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers Picture Quote #1
... 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 my believing is causally responsible for my saying... If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it’s the end of the world Picture Quote #1
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 structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn’t the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn’t. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look Picture Quote #1
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge Picture Quote #1
I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats... surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat Picture Quote #1
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The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know Picture Quote #1
The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts Picture Quote #1
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On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) ... 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 my believing is causally responsible for my saying... If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it’s the end of the world  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) 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 structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn’t the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn’t. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats... surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat  (Jerry Fodor Quotes) 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 Quotes) The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts  (Jerry Fodor Quotes)