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Jerry Fodor's Diary - A weekly column at the London Review of Books.
The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism - Review by Jerry Fodor of `How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker and `Evolution in Mind' by Henry Plotkin. Published in the London Review of Books, this article generated a lot of discussion.
Review of `The Elm and the Expert' - By John R. Lee for the Linguist list.

Jerry Fodor on mental states - Jerry Fodor's views on the nature of mental states emerge out of his rejection of two traditional competing hypotheses which are summarized (along with
Jerry Fodor on mental architecture - Jerry Fodor is notable for his important and influential ideas on a hypothesized "structure" of the mind or, what has often been called mental architecture.
Jerry Fodor - Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the ...
Multiple realizability - ... realizability, in philosophy of mind, is the thesis that the same mental property, state, or event can be implemented by different physical properties, states or events. The idea has its roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s when a number of philosophers, most prominently Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor, put it forth as an argument against reductionist accounts of the relation between mental and physical kinds.
Postcognitivism - Psychological movements are considered to be post-cognitivist if they are opposed or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr and others.