b. 1945
Georges Rey is an American philosopher of mind and language, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is known for his defense of a computational/representational theory of mind and for critical work on nativism, concepts, and the philosophy of linguistics. Rey has also written influentially on atheism and the methodology of cognitive science.
Authored Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach (1997)
Developed a representationalist/computationalist account of mental content
Critiqued Jerry Fodor's concept nativism while defending computational theories of mind
Contributed influential work on the ontology of linguistics and Chomskyan generative grammar
Published widely on eliminativism, consciousness, and philosophical methodology