15 Quotes by Jerry Fodor

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

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

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

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

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.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.