Fodor, Jerry

"Understanding the mind requires respecting its fundamental opacity."

"Phenomenal properties resist functional characterization."

"The architecture of cognition reflects billions of years of evolution."

"Mental representation requires intentionality; mere causation is insufficient."

"Consciousness might be multiply realizable yet still pose unique explanatory problems."

"Cognitive systems exhibit bounded rationality and systematic irrationality."

"The relationship between syntax and semantics is central to cognitive science."

"We must distinguish between the metaphysics and epistemology of mind."

"The explanatory autonomy of psychology does not require psychological holism."

"Mental content depends on more than just physical organization."

"Cognitive development involves both maturation and learning."

"The problem of other minds cannot be solved by analogy or inference."

"Consciousness exhibits properties that seem incompatible with physicalism."

"Modularity explains cognitive efficiency and explains cognitive rigidity."

"The systematic nature of thought requires compositional mental representations."

"Physicalism faces serious challenges from the phenomenon of consciousness."

"Mental causation is real even if it seems metaphysically problematic."

"Cognitive systems use heuristics that violate the principles of rational choice theory."

"The content of mental states depends partly on facts outside the individual."

"Understanding human cognition requires integrating multiple levels of explanation."

"Consciousness remains the last great mystery of cognitive science."

"The architecture of the mind is both universal and individually variable."

"Mental representation involves both context-dependent and context-independent aspects."

"Reductionist approaches to mind consistently underestimate the hard problem."