Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Jerry A. Fodor and Friedrich Schleiermacher

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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind
2498 Modules make the world manageable [Fodor]
2499 Modules analyse stimuli, they don't tell you what to do [Fodor]
2496 Blindness doesn't destroy spatial concepts [Fodor]
2509 Modules have in-built specialist information [Fodor]
2500 Babies talk in consistent patterns [Fodor]
2507 Rationality rises above modules [Fodor]
22186 Mental modules are specialised, automatic, and isolated [Fodor, by Okasha]
2491 Modules have encapsulation, inaccessibility, private concepts, innateness [Fodor]
2497 Something must take an overview of the modules [Fodor]
2495 Obvious modules are language and commonsense explanation [Fodor]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
3010 Belief and desire are structured states, which need mentalese [Fodor]
8090 Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]
2483 Mentalese doesn't require a theory of meaning [Fodor]
2604 We must have expressive power BEFORE we learn language [Fodor]
12643 Ambiguities in English are the classic reason for claiming that we don't think in English [Fodor]
2487 Mentalese may also incorporate some natural language [Fodor]
2480 Language is ambiguous, but thought isn't [Fodor]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files
12649 We think in file names [Fodor]
12647 Mental representations name things in the world, but also files in our memory [Fodor]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
3135 Is thought a syntactic computation using representations? [Fodor, by Rey]
12655 Frame Problem: how to eliminate most beliefs as irrelevant, without searching them? [Fodor]