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Jerry Fodor | |
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 In 2007 | |
| Born | Jerry Alan Fodor April 22, 1935 New York City, US |
| Died | November 29, 2017 (aged 82) New York City, US |
| Awards | Jean Nicod Prize (1993) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Princeton University |
| Thesis | The Uses of "Use": A Study in the Philosophy of Language (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hilary Putnam |
| Other advisor | Sidney Morgenbesser |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mind Philosophy of language Cognitive science Rationalism Cognitivism Functionalism |
| Notable ideas | Modularity of mind Language of thought |
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- Philosophers of psychology
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- American philosophers of mind
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- American philosophers of logic
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- Use American English from July 2022
- American philosophers of social science
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- Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
- American consciousness researchers and theorists
- Presidents of the American Philosophical Association
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