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Georges Leon Rey (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.

Biography

Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1978.^[1] His thesis was titled The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues,^[1] and was completed under Hilary Putnam.^{[citation needed]}

His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.^{[citation needed]} One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to eliminativism and instrumentalism, particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of introspection.^{[citation needed]} Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at Encyclopædia Britannica Online.^[2]

Books

Rey, Georges (1997). Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-19071-4.^[3]

Rey, Georges (2020). Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885563-7.

References

^ ^a ^b Rey, Georges Leon (1978). The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues (PhD thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
^ Rey, Georges (2010). "Philosophy of mind". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Vol. 1. pp. 648–657. doi:10.1002/wcs.32. PMID 26271650. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
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Reviews of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:
- Witonsky, Abraham (1999). Minds and Machines. 9 (2): 287–290. doi:10.1023/A:1008306631166. ISSN 0924-6495. S2CID 476321.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Ludwig, Kirk (1998), Mind, 107 (425): 246–250, JSTOR 2659820{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

External links

Georges Rey's faculty profile page at the University of Maryland
The Language of Thought Hypothesis entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes mention of how Rey's Computational/Representational Theory of Thought relates to language of thought.

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[thesis-1] Rey, Georges Leon (1978). The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues (PhD thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved November 24, 2020.

[2] Rey, Georges (2010). "Philosophy of mind". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Vol. 1. pp. 648–657. doi:10.1002/wcs.32. PMID 26271650. Retrieved November 24, 2020.

[3] Reviews of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:
Witonsky, Abraham (1999). Minds and Machines. 9 (2): 287–290. doi:10.1023/A:1008306631166. ISSN 0924-6495. S2CID 476321.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

Ludwig, Kirk (1998), Mind, 107 (425): 246–250, JSTOR 2659820{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[4] Witonsky, Abraham (1999). Minds and Machines. 9 (2): 287–290. doi:10.1023/A:1008306631166. ISSN 0924-6495. S2CID 476321.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[5] Ludwig, Kirk (1998), Mind, 107 (425): 246–250, JSTOR 2659820{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

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-'''Georges Rey''' is a professor of philosophy at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]].
+'''Georges Leon Rey''' (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]].
+==Biography==
-His book ''Contemporary Philosophy of Mind'' discusses the topic of [[philosophy of mind]]. One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to [[eliminativism]] and [[instrumentalism]], particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of [[introspection]]. Rey is also the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at [[Encyclopædia Britannica]].
+Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from [[Harvard University]] in 1978.<ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis|url=
+http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038988850203941/catalog|title=The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues|last=Rey|first=Georges Leon| publisher=Harvard University|year=1978|type=PhD thesis|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref>  His thesis was titled ''The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues'',<ref name="thesis" /> and was completed under [[Hilary Putnam]].{{cn|date=November 2020}}
+His book ''Contemporary Philosophy of Mind'' discusses the topic of [[philosophy of mind]].{{cn|date=November 2020}} One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to [[eliminativism]] and [[instrumentalism]], particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of [[introspection]].{{cn|date=November 2020}} Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at [[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-mind | title= Philosophy of mind| encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]]|last=Rey|first=Georges| year= 2010| volume= 1| issue= 5| pages= 648–657| doi= 10.1002/wcs.32| pmid= 26271650|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref>
-==Bibliography==
-* ''Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: a Contentiously Classical Approach'', 1997
+==Books==
+*{{cite book|last=Rey|first=Georges|title=Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Thx0QgAACAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-631-19071-4}}<ref>Reviews of ''Contemporary Philosophy of Mind'':
+*{{cite journal|title=none|last1=Witonsky|first1=Abraham|journal=Minds and Machines|volume=9|issue=2|year=1999|pages=287–290|issn=0924-6495|doi=10.1023/A:1008306631166|s2cid=476321}}
+*{{citation|title=none|last=Ludwig|first=Kirk|journal=Mind|volume=107|issue=425|date=1998|pages=246–250|jstor=2659820}}
+</ref>
+*{{cite book|last=Rey|first=Georges|title=Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BocEEAAAQBAJ|year=2020|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-885563-7}}
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
 ==External links==
 * {{Official|https://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/rey|Georges Rey's}} faculty profile page at the University of Maryland
-*[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ The Language of Thought Hypothesis] entry at the [[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] includes mention of how Rey's Computational/Representational Theory of Thought relates to [[language of thought]].
+* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ The Language of Thought Hypothesis] entry at the [[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] includes mention of how Rey's Computational/Representational Theory of Thought relates to [[language of thought]].
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