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Researcher · Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights · Netherlands

Jerry A. Fodor

Jerry A. Fodor publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#8,345
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#145
of 23,481
Works
51
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
28.6

What does Jerry A. Fodor research?

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 16.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 12.5%Philosophy: 12.5%Sociology and Political Science: 10.4%other fields: 47.9%17%top field
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology16.7%History and Philosophy of Science12.5%Philosophy12.5%Sociology and Political Science10.4%other fields47.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology17% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jerry A. Fodor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cognitive Science, Perception, Consciousness, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Phenomenal Experience, Aesthetic Perception and Aristotle.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cognitive Science72 topics
  2. Perception72 topics
  3. Consciousness51 topic
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  6. Phenomenal Experience51 topic
  7. Aesthetic Perception21 topic
  8. Aristotle21 topic
  9. Belief21 topic
  10. Knowledge21 topic
  11. Metaphor21 topic
  12. Neuroaesthetics21 topic
  13. Plato21 topic
  14. Time21 topic
  15. Embodied Cognition11 topic
  16. Neural Processing11 topic
  17. Predictive Brain Theory11 topic
  18. Visual Perception11 topic

Where does Jerry A. Fodor work?

Jerry A. Fodor's main affiliation in the publication record is Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Jerry A. Fodor have?

Science Explorer counts 51 works and 1,457 citations for Jerry A. Fodor, ranking #8,345 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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