Talk:Jerry Fodor

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Contents 1 Extremely exhausted 2 Posted 3 Failed Good Article 4 Footnotes 5 Photo 6 Pronunciation 7 be back 8 Eliminativism vs. reductionism

[edit] Extremely exhausted

--Francesco Franco 17:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC) i will have to finish this off-line within the next two days.--Lacatosias 17:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Posted

Posted second installment. I'll keep working on it.--Lacatosias 17:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failed Good Article

The article has very long sections. I'm sure they could be broken up into sub-sections so as not to appear so drawn-out. joturner 16:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Good article status added. joturner 16:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes

The footnotes are a mess. The superscripts do not correspond to the listed references. Some of the items listed as references (e.g., Carnap, Harman) do not appear to be cited in the body. I'm not going to try to change them myself, since I am not sure that I would fix them properly.

Yes, yes, give me a chance please!! I have just tranformed the artcile into three or four separete artcile and I had to move out the referenecs that correspond with the footnotes on the other pages.

Keep in midn, I've doe ALL of this work by myself. I'll have the references on THIS page (the tiothers are alerady in order) straightened out this afternoon.--Lacatosias 09:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Also please sign you damned posts!! Critisms are welcome but anonymity (and I don't have admin status so I can't check into the logs as far as I know) is rude.

--Lacatosias 09:12, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

( half hour later) So what's the problem now??--Lacatosias 10:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

It seems that the photo of Fodor will have to be taken down because of uncertainty of copyright status. That's unfortunate. I think it defintely enhances the quality of the article for non-academic readers. Is it possible for someone over there in the States (I'm in Italy) to try to get copyright permission for this photo or replace it with one that is in the public domain? --Lacatosias 16:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC) Resolved. --Lacatosias 15:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Photo is still lacking, BTW. Someone should probably write to Fodor at some point and ask permission, if anyone's has the time and interest any more.--Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 11:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

I think it would be nice (and prudent) to provide the pronunciation of some surnames that aren't intuitively clear. These include, notably, Fodor, Haugeland, as well as many others. They pose a difficulty for nonnative speakers, and I've even noticed native speakers occasionally stumble over them or pronounce them in different ways. Ariosto 07:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC) Italic text

[edit] be back

I'll come back and take a look at the "professionally edited" Featured Article that will have been made of this and numerous other philosophy articles in about three months. --Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 20:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eliminativism vs. reductionism

Is there any difference? A reductionist is either a reductionist in the weak sense that they think that mental phenomena are entirely determined by physical law (in which case they agree with Fodor), or they're reductionists in the sense that they don't think beliefs, desires, etc. really exist, in which case they're eliminativists. Is there an intermediate position? Cadr 18:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I guess type physicalism could be a reductionist position which isn't eliminativist and which Fodor doesn't agree with. Cadr 18:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)