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On Fodor‐Fixation, Flexibility, and Human Uniqueness: A Reply to Cowie, Machery, and Wilson
Author(s) -
CARRUTHERS PETER
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2008.00344.x
Subject(s) - uniqueness , flexibility (engineering) , epistemology , philosophy , modularity (biology) , cognitive science , psychology , social psychology , mathematics , biology , statistics , genetics
This paper argues that two of my critics (Cowie and Wilson) have become fixated on Fodor’s notion of modularity, both to their own detriment and to the detriment of their understanding of Carruthers, 2006. The paper then focuses on the supposed inadequacies of the latter’s explanations of both content flexibility and human uniqueness, alleged by Machery and Cowie respectively.