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The Weak and the Strong RTM: Stich's Interpretation of Fodor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Ausonio Marras
Ausonio Marras
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University of Western Ontario
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987 , pp. 349 - 356
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1987

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References

1 Stich, S. P., From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983). References to this book will be given parenthetically in the textGoogle Scholar.

2 Fodor's, J. A. classic formulation and defence of the RTM is in his book The Language of Thought (New York: Crowell, 1975)Google Scholar. See also relevant essays in his book Representations (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981)Google Scholar.

3 See J. A. Fodor, “Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology”, in Representations.

4 In referring to the RTM I shall henceforth be referring to the computational form of the theory.

5 On the STM, see my Critical Notice of Stich's, book in Philosophy of Science 54 (1987)Google Scholar.

6 See J. A. Fodor, “Special Sciences”, in Representations.

7 I am grateful to Jerry Fodor and William Demopoulos for their helpful comments. I am also grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for support in this research.