Introduction to Cognitive Science
Computational Theories of Consciousness
Modularity of Mind
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Fodor, Jerry A.
(1983),
The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Some sections online @ Google Books; click on title above.
Some sections online @ amazon.com
Ch. 1, "Four Accounts of Mental Structure", pp. 1-38
Fodor, Jerry A. (1985),
"Précis of
Modularity of Mind
",
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
8: 1-42.
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2001),
"Modularity of Mind"
, in Wilson, Robert A.; & Keil, Frank C. (eds.) (2001),
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Bassett, Danielle S.; & Gazzaniga, Michael S. (2011), "Understanding Complexity in the Human Brain",
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
15(5) (May): 200–209.
Murphy, Gregory L. (2019),
"On Fodor's First Law of the Nonexistence of Cognitive Science"
,
Cognitive Science
43(5) (May).
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