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Zenon Pylyshyn

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Gender Male
DeathDied last year
Date of birth August 25,1937
Zodiac sign Virgo
Schools of thought Rationalism
Analytic philosophy
Functionalism
Cognitivism
Influenced by Jerry Fodor
Job Philosopher
BooksMinds Without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts
Things and Places
Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think
Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science
Perspectives on the computer revolution
Born Montreal
Canada
Era20th-century philosophy
Functionalism
Rationalism
Analytic philosophy
Cognitivism
Education McGill University
University of Saskatchewan
Awards Jean Nicod Prize
DiedNew York
New York
United States
Date of died December 6,2022
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Zenon Walter Pylyshyn FRSC was a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher. He was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from 1963 to 1964. Pylyshyn's research generally involved the theoretical analysis of the nature of the human cognitive systems behind perception, imagination, and reasoning.

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