1.1. Fodor’s Background Theory A. Elements of Classical RTM

For such a short book (165 pages of text, plus a three page Preface), Jerry Fodor’sConcepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong covers a lot of ground. There are very many trees, or maybe better, multiple woods, to keep track of: theses, preliminaries, assumptions, caveats, appendices, etc. We’ll start off, then, by sketching the central flow of argument, as background. We will then critically discuss two novel aspects of the book.