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According to Wikipedia, Jerry Alan Fodor was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, and he is recognized as having had "an enormous influence on virtually every portion of the philosophy of mind literature since 1960." At the time of his death in 2017, he held the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Rutgers University, and had taught previously at the City University of New York Graduate Center and MIT.

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Modularity of mind (1983) (8863)
Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis (1988) (3695)
The Language of Thought (1980) (2740)
The structure of a semantic theory (1963) (1905)
The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology (1984) (1590)
The Modularity of mind. An essay on faculty psychology (1986) (1490)
Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind (1988) (1247)
Methodological solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology (1980) (1208)
Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis) (1974) (1207)
Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (1998) (896)
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way : The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (2000) (893)
The Psychology of Language (1974) (735)
How direct is visual perception?: Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach” (1981) (634)
A Theory of Content and Other Essays. (1992) (627)
Précis of The Modularity of Mind (1985) (588)
Psychology and Language. (1970) (491)
Lot 2: The Language of Thought Revisited (2008) (469)
A theory of the child's theory of mind (1992) (455)
The Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and Generative Grammar (1976) (440)
Connectionism and the problem of systematicity: Why Smolensky's solution doesn't work (1990) (433)
The mind-body problem. (1981) (418)
What psychological states are not (1972) (404)
The Structure of Language: Readings in the Philosophy of Language (1966) (378)
The psychological reality of linguistic segments (1965) (371)
Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science (1981) (363)
Connectionism and cognitive architecture (1993) (359)
Holism: A Shopper's Guide (1992) (350)
Observation Reconsidered (1984) (321)
The elm and the expert : mentalese and its semantics (1995) (287)
Special Sciences: Still Autonomous after All these Years (2008) (278)
The Appeal to Tacit Knowledge in Psychological Explanation (1968) (271)
Fodor's guide to mental representation: the intelligent auntie's Vade-Mecum (1993) (257)
The compositionality papers (2002) (251)
Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity (1967) (249)
Making Mind Matter More (1987) (237)
Semantic focus and sentence comprehension (1979) (198)
Psychological Explanation; An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology (1968) (192)
A Reply to Churchland's "Perceptual Plasticity and Theoretical Neutrality" (1988) (189)
What Darwin Got Wrong (2010) (188)
The active use of grammar in speech perception (1966) (185)
Language, Thought and Compositionality (2001) (179)
You can fool some of the people all of the time (1991) (179)
The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Reflections on James Pustejovsky's The Generative Lexicon (1998) (150)
Why meaning (probably) isn't conceptual role (1991) (147)
The red herring and the pet fish: why concepts still can't be prototypes (1996) (142)
Against definitions (1980) (138)
Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II : Verb structure (1968) (122)
Tom Swift and his procedural grandmother (1978) (120)
Doing without what's within: Fiona Cowie's critique of nativism (2001) (120)
Why Paramecia Don't Have Mental Representations (1987) (111)
12. The Psychological Unreality of Semantic Representations (1981) (111)
A Modal Argument for Narrow Content (1991) (110)
Concepts: a potboiler (1994) (108)
Having Concepts: a Brief Refutation of the Twentieth Century (2004) (101)
A Theory of Content (1990) (100)
Some reflections on L.S. Vygotsky's thought and language (1972) (94)
Semantics, Wisconsin style (1984) (88)
On the acquisition of syntax: a critique of "contextual generalization". (1965) (84)
Why stereotypes don’t even make good defaults (2007) (83)
Could meaning be an rm (1965) (82)
There Are No Recognitional Concepts; Not Even RED (1998) (75)
Minds Without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts (2014) (73)
Information and association (1986) (68)
Reply to Steven Pinker 'So How Does The Mind Work?' (2005) (66)
Why we are so good at catching cheaters (2000) (63)
Cognitive science and the twin-Earth problem (1982) (62)
All at sea in semantic space : Churchland on meaning similarity (1999) (55)
The emptiness of the lexicon: Critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's the generative lexicon (1998) (52)
The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations (2011) (51)
Connectionism and the problem of systematicity (continued): why Smolensky's solution still doesn't work (1997) (50)
Learning from functionalism : prospects for strong artificial life (50)
In critical condition : polemical essays on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind (2000) (49)
III. OPERATIONALISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE A CRITIQUE OF WITTGENSTEIN (1965) (46)
Introduction: Some Notes on What Linguistics Is About (1981) (44)
Why there STILL has to be a language of thought (1990) (41)
Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (2007) (40)
What cannot be evaluated cannot be evaluated and it cannot be supervalued either (1996) (39)
Why Compositionality Won’t Go Away: Reflections on Horwich’s ‘Deflationary’ Theory (2001) (38)
Putting concepts to work: Some thoughts for the twentyfirst century. Author's reply (2004) (38)
The Structure of Language Readings in the Philosophy of Language [by] Jerry A. Fodor [and] Jerrold J. Katz (1967) (34)
An evaluation of assumptions underlying the single-patient-only position in neuropsychological research: A reply (1991) (34)
Brandom's Burdens: Compositionality and Inferentialism (2001) (32)
The Dogma that Didn't Bark (A Fragment of a Naturalized Epistemology) (1991) (32)
In Critical Condition (1998) (31)
Deconstructing Dennett's Darwin (1996) (29)
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban (2011) (27)
On knowing what we would say (1964) (27)
THE GENESIS OF LANGUAGE (2006) (26)
A theory of content and other essays [electronic resource] (1990) (26)
1 A Situated Grandmother? Some Remarks on Proposals by Barwise and Perry (1987) (25)
Psychological theories and linguistic constructs (1968) (25)
Individualism and Supervenience (1986) (25)
The pet fish and the red herring: why concepts aren't prototypes (1996) (23)
Against Darwinism. Author's reply (2008) (23)
Searle on what only brains can do (1980) (22)
What's wrong with the philosophy of Language? 1 (1962) (21)
Computation and Reduction (1978) (21)
Operationalism and ordinary language (1967) (20)
Philosophy of mind (1971) (20)
Is linguistics empirical? (1965) (19)
On Being Happy or Unhappy (2018) (19)
Impossible Words? (1999) (18)
Is radical interpretation possible (1994) (18)
The availability of what we say (1963) (18)
What Is the Connection Principle (1994) (18)
Impossible words? Authors' reply (1999) (17)
How the mind works: what we still don't know (2006) (17)
Questions of meaning (1963) (16)
Replies to Critics (2000) (15)
Holism: A Consumer Update (1994) (14)
Troubles about actions (1970) (14)
Is intentional ascription intrinsically normative (1993) (13)
More about mediators: A reply to Berlyne and Osgood (1966) (12)
Reply to Churchland (1996) (11)
Out of Context (2004) (11)
The inductivist fallacy (1980) (9)
The emperor is still under-dressed (2005) (9)
The trouble with psychological Darwinism (2015) (9)
Perceptual Plasticity and Theoretical Neutrality : A Reply to (2014) (9)
The emergence of systematicity in minimally cognitive agents (2013) (8)
Some Types of Ambiguous Tokens (1963) (8)
The psychology of language: An Introduction to psychololinguistics and generative grammar / J.A. Fodor, T.G. Bever, M.F. Garrett (1974) (8)
Reply to Block and Boghossian (1993) (8)
Projection and Paraphrase in Semantics (1961) (8)
Concepts; A Potboiler (1995) (7)
Methodological solipsism: replies to commentators (1980) (7)
Could There Be a Theory of Perception (1966) (7)
Impossible Words: A Reply to Kent Johnson (2005) (6)
Reply to Beaman (2002) (6)
Editorial Board (1994) (5)
When is a dog a DOG? (1998) (5)
The Development of Psychological Models for Speech Recognition. (1968) (5)
In reply to Philip Johnson-Laird (1979) (5)
Reply to Commentators (2004) (5)
Review Essay: Remnants of Meaning by Stephen Schiffer@@@Remnants of Meaning. (1989) (5)
Folk Psychology from the Standpoint of Conceptual Analysis (1996) (4)
Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlin (2001) (4)
Workings of the spirit (1999) (4)
A REPLY TO DIXON’S “A TREND IN SEMANTICS” (1964) (4)
The Folly of Simulation (1996) (4)
Projectibility and reference (1982) (4)
The Representational Theory of Mind (1997) (4)
All at Sea in Semantic Space (1999) (4)
What Sort of Science is Semantics (2012) (3)
The limits of Darwinism (2010) (3)
Churchland on state space semantics (1996) (3)
ENOUGH WITH THE NORMS ALREADY (2013) (3)
Brandom's burdens: a review of Robert B. Brandom's articulating reasons (2001) (3)
Philosophy in an Age of Science by Hilary Putnam (2013) (3)
Naturalizing Content (2018) (3)
Precis of Holism: A Shopper's Guide@@@Philosophical Investigations.@@@Two Dogmas of Empiricism. (1993) (3)
Holism: A Consumer Update: Replies (1993) (2)
The emperor is still underdressed (2005) (2)
The Compositionality Papers, by Jerry A (2003) (2)
Holism: A Consumer Update: Preface (1993) (2)
Of words and uses 1 (1961) (2)
3. Propositional Attitudes (1981) (2)
Déjà vu all Over Again (2012) (2)
Precis of holism: A shopper's guide (1993) (2)
What is wrong with tensor product connectionism (1991) (1)
7. Imagistic Representation (1981) (1)
Replies to Boghossian and Perry (1994) (1)
3 What Psychological States Are Not (1)
Radical and Moderate Pragmatics (2002) (1)
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence Deacon (2012) (1)
Solutions to Fodor's Problem of Concept Acquisition (2005) (1)
The specificity of language skills (1974) (1)
What We Still Don't Know About Cognition (2005) (1)
Still looking for structural complexity effects in the representation of lexical concepts (1996) (1)
Concepts: Core Readings (1999) (1)
A Reply to Brian Loar's "Must Beliefs Be Sentences?" (1982) (1)
No person is a stream (2003) (1)
Response to Leiber (1983) (1)
What Do You Mean (1960) (1)
Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture : 1 A Critical Analysis (1999) (1)
Interview - Jerry Fodor (2008) (1)
Meaning, Holism and the Problem of Extensionality (1994) (1)
Remarks on Fodor on having concepts. Author's reply (2004) (0)
The Demise of Definitions, Part I: The Linguist's Tale (1998) (0)
Darwin's empty idea (2010) (0)
Contents of volume 103 (2007) (0)
Review: Précis of Holism: A Shopper's Guide (1993) (0)
Psychosurgery: What’s The Issue? (1976) (0)
The Metaphysics of Reference (2008) (0)
Reconstructing the Learning Sciences (2016) (0)
The Phylogenetic Spectrum: Why Paramecia Matter to Daniel Dennett and Jerry Fodor (2019) (0)
Context , Compositionality and Calamity JESSICA RETT (2006) (0)
Three cheers for Fred (2003) (0)
Reference within the Perceptual Circle (2014) (0)
Précis of Holism (1993) (0)
LOT Meets Frege's Problem (Among Others) (2008) (0)
Complex Concepts (occasional Wittgensteinians Notwithstanding) (2005) (0)
Reply to Professor Zaitchik (1981) (0)
Fodor's ingratitude and change of heart? Author's reply (2004) (0)
Why Meaning Isn't Conceptual Role (1993) (0)
DIRECTIVAL THEORY OF MEANING RESURRECTED1 (2017) (0)
Pains, Puns, Persons and Pronouns (1961) (0)
Editorial Board (1980) (0)
Mind Matters in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (1987) (0)
The theory of natural selection (2010) (0)
1.1. Fodor’s Background Theory A. Elements of Classical RTM (0)
Comparative Approaches to Animal Cognition State of the Art Report (1982) (0)
Reference beyond the Perceptual Circle (2014) (0)
Reasoning: Why We Are So Good at Catching Cheaters (2008) (0)
State-space semantics and meaning holism-reply (1993) (0)
Celebrating a decade of TiCS (2007) (0)
Commonsense Psychology: Scheme or Theory? (1981) (0)
Concept Pragmatism: Declined and Fell (2008) (0)
Survival of the fittest theory (2010) (0)
Mind Association Holism (2008) (0)
Concepts and Stereotypes Georges Key (1999) (0)
Unphilosophical Introduction: What Concepts Have to Be (1998) (0)
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS function therefore appears as a case of circular reasoning based on an initial prejudice: adjectives (2008) (0)
J. A. FODOR KAP ARCHIEF SPECIAL SCIENCES (OR: THE DISUNITY OF (0)
The Demise of Definitions, Part II: The Philosopher's Tale (1998) (0)
On that bumpy road (2005) (0)
Editorial Board (1984) (0)
The Mind-Body Problem JERRY A . FODOR (2006) (0)
Innateness and Ontology, Part II: Natural Kind Concepts (1998) (0)
Innateness and Ontology, Part I: The Standard Argument1 (1998) (0)
ESD-TR-67-633 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOG ICAL MODELS FOR SPEECH RECOG (2010) (0)
PHS volume 48 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
PHS volume 48 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
Philosophical Introduction: The Background Theory (1998) (0)
C. The Theory Approach (1991) (0)
I Am Indebted To (2006) (0)
Prototypes and Compositionality 1 (1998) (0)

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