Zenon Pylyshyn
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 3 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 25,1937 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Schools of thought | Rationalism |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Functionalism | |
| Cognitivism | |
| Influenced by | Jerry Fodor |
| Job | Philosopher |
| Books | Minds 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 | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Functionalism | |
| Rationalism | |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Cognitivism | |
| Education | McGill University |
| University of Saskatchewan | |
| Awards | Jean Nicod Prize |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | December 6,2022 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 460538 |
Zenon Pylyshyn Life story
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.