RePresentations Quotes

“Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it’s clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn’t really philosophical to begin with.”
― Jerry A. Fodor, RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science

“My point... is of course not that solipsism is true; it's just that truth, reference, and the rest of the semantic notions aren't psychological categories. What they are is: they're modes of Dasein. I don't know what Dasein is, but I'm sure that there's lots of it around, and I'm sure that you and I and Cincinnati have all got it. What more do you want?”
― Jerry A. Fodor, RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science