The Atomic Components of Thought

etcetera garden of Eden before the serpent introduces science, and with that, the need for natural-kind concepts). Those readers prepared to stick through this small but densely argued book will be rewarded with a sparkling display of eloquence, as well as a glimpse of the vast panorama of issues surrounding what you might have thought was a small technical problem, but which Fodor shows us is one of the central outstanding problems of cognitive science.