Fodor

Many things happen in our bodies and our minds to which we do not have introspective access. With suitable training, the range of our nonobservational. introspective awareness can be extended, but we are very complicated organisms, too complicated to oversee every detail of our own operation. Fortunately an enormous amount of what we and our bodies do does not require attention and is the result of minimal learning or none at all. This is true not only of completely involuntary processes like healing, blood clotting, spermatogenesis, and ovulation, but also of those alterations in individual nerve and muscle cells that form the substructure of ordinary intentional action, from tying our shoes to playing spiccato passages on the cello.

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• Between Chomskian Rationalism and Popperian Empiricism

  Stephen P Stich•The British Journal for the…•1979

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