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    Rewarding effort
    Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (4). 1999.
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    Concepts: Where Fodor went wrong
    Philosophical Psychology 12 (1): 5-23. 1999.
    In keeping with other recent efforts, Fodor's CONCEPTS focuses on the metaphysics of conceptual content, bracketing such epistemological questions as, "How can we know the contents of our concepts?" Fodor's metaphysical account of concepts, called "informational atomism," stipulates that the contents of a subject's concepts are fixed by the nomological lockings between the subject and the world. After sketching Fodor's "what else?" argument in support of this view, we offer a number of related c…Read more