Chris Mortensen & Gerard O'Brien (1993) Representation and Causal Asymmetry
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Psycoloquy 4(19): Representation and Causal Asymmetry
REPRESENTATION AND CAUSAL ASYMMETRY
Commentary on Wallis on Fodor-Representation
Chris Mortensen & Gerard O'Brien
Department of Philosophy
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
cmortens@adam.adelaide.edu.au
gobrien@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Abstract
The considerations Wallis brings to bear do not undermine
the substantive aspects of Fodor's account as such, but merely
suggest that it is in need of more complicated modification.
Keywords
color vision, Fodor, mind/body problem, perception,
representation, semantics, sensory transduction, verificationism
References
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- Fodor, J.A. 1987, Psychosemantics, Cambridge, Ma, MIT Press.
- Fodor, J.A. 1990, A Theory of Content II: The Theory. In A Theory of Content and Other Essays, Chapter 4, Cambridge, Ma, MIT Press.
- Godfrey-Smith, P. 1989, Misinformation, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 19, 533-550.
- Jones, T., Mulaire, E. and Stich, S. 1991, Starving off Catastrophe: a Critical Notice of Jerry Fodor's Psychosemantics, Mind and Language, 6, 58-82.
- Sterelny, K. 1990, The Representational Theory of Mind, Oxford, Blackwell
- Wallis, C. (1992) Asymmetric Dependence and Mental Representation. PSYCOLOQUY 3(70) fodor-representation.1.