Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

In the last 30 years, the cognitive sciences have been marked by one great idea proposed by Fodor: The modularity of mind. Fodor had another great idea: that of a language of thought. To a certain extent, the two ideas are partially in conflict. While the former has produced an incredible amount of science, the latter has not generated real empirical research. I will try to show what  it means to transform that idea into a research program. I will revise evidence on infants' abilities at reasoning about probabilistic logical events. I will comment about what these results mean for an empirical LOT hypothesis and for the general picture of the human mind.