Georges Rey
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Georges Leon Rey (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.
Biography
[edit]Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1978.[1] His thesis was titled The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues,[1] and was completed under Hilary Putnam.[citation needed]
His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.[citation needed] One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to eliminativism and instrumentalism, particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of introspection.[citation needed] Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at Encyclopædia Britannica Online.[2]
Books
[edit]- Rey, Georges (1997). Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-19071-4.[3]
- Rey, Georges (2020). Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885563-7.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rey, Georges Leon (1978). The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues (PhD thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Rey, Georges (2010). "Philosophy of mind". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Vol. 1. pp. 648–657. doi:10.1002/wcs.32. PMID 26271650. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Reviews of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:
External links
[edit]- Georges Rey's faculty profile page at the University of Maryland
- The Language of Thought Hypothesis entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes mention of how Rey's Computational/Representational Theory of Thought relates to language of thought.
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