Citas de Jerry Fodor

• 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

  Hate, I Hate, Relativism

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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• ...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

  Believe, Knowledge, Mind

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• Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

  Jerry Fodor

  Self, Onions, Self Pity

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• If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

  Jerry Fodor

  Community, Computer, Ifs

  "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism". www.lrb.co.uk. January 22, 1998.

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• I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

  Jerry Fodor

  Philosophy, Doubt, Phds

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• 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

  World, Way, Relation

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• 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

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Waiting

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

  Jerry Fodor

  Drawing, Debt, Pay

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• I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

  Jerry Fodor

  Syntax, Virtue, Process

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• 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

  Hands, Parent, Retrospect

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• En mis días malos, a veces me pregunto para qué sirven los filósofos.

  Jerry Fodor

  Bad Day, Philosopher, Sometimes

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• Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.

  Jerry Fodor

  Thinking, Data, Class

  "Wittgenstein, Mind, and Meaning". Book by Meredith Williams, 2002 edition.

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• The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.

  Jerry Fodor

  Doe, Kind, Virtue

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

  Jerry Fodor

  Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt

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• Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.

  Jerry Fodor

  Mean, Differences, Views

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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• El grado de confirmación asignado a cualquier hipótesis es sensible a las propiedades de todo el sistema de creencias... la simplicidad, la verosimilitud y el conservadurismo son propiedades que tienen las teorías en virtud de su relación con toda la estructura de creencias científicas tomadas colectivamente. Una medida del conservadurismo o la simplicidad sería una métrica sobre las propiedades globales de los sistemas de creencias.

  Jerry Fodor

  Taken, Simplicity, Degrees

  "The Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, plato.stanford.edu. 1983.

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• El individualismo metodológico es la doctrina según la cual los estados psicológicos se individualizan con respecto a sus poderes causales.

  Jerry Fodor

  Respect, Doctrine, Individualism

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• ...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Law, Interesting

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

  Jerry Fodor

  Winning, Two, Competition

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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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.

  Jerry Fodor

  Data, May, Bears

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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• Simplemente no es cierto, por ejemplo, que ser grande sea en general mejor para la forma física que ser pequeño, excepto cuando hay efectos de variables que interactúan; o que volar lento y alto sea en general mejor para la forma física que volar rápido y bajo, excepto cuando hay efectos de variables que interactúan; o que ser monógamo sea en general mejor para la forma física que ser polígamo... excepto cuando hay efectos de variables que interactúan... No es que las generalizaciones subyacentes estén ahí pero sean imperceptibles en el ruido ambiente.

  Jerry Fodor

  Flying, Example, Variables

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Class, Mind

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