Georges Rey

Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1978.{{cite thesis|url=

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038988850203941/catalog|title=The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues|last=Rey|first=Georges Leon| publisher=Harvard University|year=1978|type=PhD thesis|accessdate=November 24, 2020}} His thesis was titled The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues, and was completed under Hilary Putnam.{{cn|date=November 2020}}

His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.{{cn|date=November 2020}} 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.{{cn|date=November 2020}} Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at Encyclopædia Britannica Online.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-mind | title= Philosophy of mind| encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|last=Rey|first=Georges| year= 2010| volume= 1| issue= 5| pages= 648–657| doi= 10.1002/wcs.32| pmid= 26271650|accessdate=November 24, 2020| url-access= subscription}}

• {{cite book|last=Rey|first=Georges|title=Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Thx0QgAACAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-631-19071-4}}Reviews of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:
• {{cite journal|title=none|last1=Witonsky|first1=Abraham|journal=Minds and Machines|volume=9|issue=2|year=1999|pages=287–290|issn=0924-6495|doi=10.1023/A:1008306631166|s2cid=476321}}
• {{citation|title=none|last=Ludwig|first=Kirk|journal=Mind|volume=107|issue=425|date=1998|pages=246–250|jstor=2659820}}

• {{cite book|last=Rey|first=Georges|title=Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BocEEAAAQBAJ|year=2020|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-885563-7}}

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• {{Official|https://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/rey|Georges Rey's}} faculty profile page at the University of Maryland
• [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ 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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