Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics - Tapa dura

Over the last two decades Jerry Fodor has development and defended an account of intentional mental states and processes which he calls the representational theory of mind. According to this theory, intentional states involve relations to syntactically structured representations in a language of thought, and mental processes are computations over these representations. Recently Fodor has added to this theory what he claims to be a naturalistic account of the semantics of mental representations. "Meaning and Mind" contains a series of perspective, critiques, examinations and explanations of Fodor's work and responses to these by Fodor himself. Each of the contributors holds a position contrary to Fodor's.