Fodor, Jerry

"Mental content is public in a way that neural states are not."

"Consciousness involves more than mere information processing."

"The mind's architecture reflects both evolutionary history and logical necessity."

"Intentionality is the key to understanding what makes minds special."

"Psychological generalizations hold despite variation in neural implementation."

"Understanding other minds is not foundationally problematic."

"The explanatory power of folk psychology justifies its continued use."

"Mental representation makes thought possible across time and possibility."

"Naturalism about the mind does not entail reductionism."

"The structure of language suggests something about the structure of thought."

"Semantic content depends on relations to things beyond the head."

"The mind is both a physical system and a system of meanings."

"Psychological explanation is irreducibly intentional in character."

"Understanding requires grasping both mechanism and meaning."

"The problem of intentionality is the central problem of philosophy of mind."

"Mental states have intrinsic intentional properties."

"Rational psychology is possible because minds are systematic."

"The modularity of mind explains both genius and idiocy."

"Consciousness may be an emergent property of complex systems."

"Understanding minds requires respecting their autonomy from physics."

"Thought depends on having the right kind of representational structure."

"Mental content is determined by functional role and causal history."

"The privacy of experience does not entail the incorrigibility of introspection."

"Intentionality is a natural phenomenon, not a mystery."

"The explanatory success of psychology vindicates our ordinary concepts."

"Understanding requires recognizing that minds have content and causation."

"Mental representation is the basis of all higher cognition."

"Psychological laws are autonomous from neurological laws."

"The mind solves problems through structured representation and computation."

"Intentional realism is the only coherent view of the mental."