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This philosopher imagined playing a game about the philosophy of mind with his aunt and uncle on a rainy day in a paper subtitled “The Intelligent Auntie’s Vade-Mecum (“VAY-dee MEE-kum”).” This philosopher coined the term “vertical faculties” to describe the phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall’s account of mental structure. (10[1])Despite accepting the “generality of physics,” this philosopher argued in a 1974 paper that, because of multiple realizability, the “special sciences” do not reduce to physics. (10[1])This (10[1])philosopher argued against a so-called “massive” extension of one of his main ideas in a book whose title is a rebuke to Steven Pinker, (10[1])called The Mind (10[1])Doesn’t Work That Way. (-5[1])A 1983 book by this (10[1])philosopher argues that the mind includes domain-specific, (10[1])innate (10[1])“organs” such as the language faculty. (10[1])For 10 points, what author (-5[1])of The Modularity (10[1])of Mind (10[1])put forth (-5[1])the language of thought (10[1])hypothesis? ■END■ (10[5]0[3])

ANSWER: Jerry Fodor [or Jerry Alan Fodor]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2085%0%15%114.35

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland AWUSTL A4510
Anson BernsBrown AFlorida A7110
James StevensonMichigan ANYU A7210
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AStanford A9610
Matt JacksonChicago AChicago B9910
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AMIT A103-5
Justin HawkinsIndiana ACornell B10810
Neal JoshiWUSTL BIowa State A11510
Clark SmithOhio State ACornell A11610
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AHarvard A12210
Sky LiToronto AMinnesota A127-5
Mitch McCullarIllinois AClaremont A13010
Brad MacLaineTexas AChicago C13210
Sean DoyleHouston APurdue A134-5
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AVanderbilt A13810
Joel MilesMinnesota AToronto A14010
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AColumbia A14010
Matthew SiffYale BPenn A1400
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AYale B1400
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BRutgers B14010
Quynh PhungPurdue AHouston A1400
Enoch YuenImperial AUC Berkeley B14010
Daniel SheinbergYale ADuke A14010