Georges Rey

Georges Leon Rey (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.

Biography

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

• 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

1. Rey, Georges Leon (1978). The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues (PhD thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
2. 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.
3. Reviews of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:
   • Witonsky, Abraham (1999). Minds and Machines. 9 (2): 287–290. doi:10.1023/A:1008306631166. ISSN   0924-6495. S2CID   476321.
   • Ludwig, Kirk (1998), Mind, 107 (425): 246–250, JSTOR   2659820

External links

• 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.