Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.

In the LRB Archive:

• Where is my mind?: No, your mind isn’t in your iPhone · 12 February 2009

  • Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark

• Flirts, Victims, Connivers: Operatic Seduction · 11 September 2008

  • Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera by Jean Starobinski, translated by C. Jon Delogu

• Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings: The Case against Natural Selection · 18 October 2007

• Headaches have themselves: Panpsychism · 24 May 2007

  • Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson et al

• Who ate the salted peanuts?: Michael Frayn · 21 September 2006

  • The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn

• Give me that juicy bit over there: What is it about music? · 6 October 2005

  • The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen

• Water’s water everywhere: Kripke · 21 October 2004

  • Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity by Christopher Hughes

• What Wotan Wants: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ · 5 August 2004

  • Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ by Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht

• You can’t argue with a novel: what consciousness isn’t · 4 March 2004

  • Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd

• More Peanuts: Dr. Livingstone, I infer · 9 October 2003

  • Thinking without Words by José Luis Bermúdez

• Why would Mother Nature bother?: Daniel Dennett · 6 March 2003

  • Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett

• Don’t bet the chicken coop: Stuck with Consciousness · 5 September 2002

  • Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau

• Mouse Thoughts: Donald Davidson · 7 March 2002

  • Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective by Donald Davidson

• Not Entirely Nice: Where does Tosca get the bread knife from? · 2 November 2000

  • Puccini: His International Art by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini

• A Science of Tuesdays writes about the Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam · 20 July 2000

  • The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam

• Diary sees the Elton John and Tim Rice reworking of Aida · 30 March 2000

• Diary: why the brain? · 30 September 1999

• Not so Clever Hans: Is my cat a thinker? · 4 February 1999

  • If a Lion Could Talk: How Animals Think by Stephen Budiansky

• Look! on Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson · 29 October 1998

  • Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

• The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism on Pinker and Plotkin · 22 January 1998

  • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
  • Evolution in Mind by Henry Plotkin

• Cat’s Whiskers · 30 October 1997

  • Points of View by A.W. Moore

• Bottoms Again · 19 June 1997

  • The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg, translated by Barbara Haveland
  • Great Apes by Will Self

• It’s the thought that counts · 28 November 1996

  • The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen

• Peacocking: Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin · 18 April 1996

  • Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

• Encounters with Trees · 20 April 1995

  • Mind and World by John McDowell

• Unpacking a dog · 7 October 1993

  • A Study of Concepts by Christopher Peacocke

• Too hard for our kind of mind? · 27 June 1991

  • The Problem of Consciousness by Colin McGinn

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