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
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at Encyclopædia Britannica Online.[2]
Books
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References
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External links
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- 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.