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Jerry Fodor · Diary: why the brain?

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject Why, why, does everyone go on so about the brain? Each Tuesday, the New York Times does its section on science, to which I am addicted. I like best the astrophysical stuff on pulsars and quasars and black holes and how old and far away everything is; there’s a pleasantly vertiginous aftertaste that sometimes lasts until ‘Arts and Entertainment’ comes out on Saturday. But I’m quite prepared to settle for the breaking news on whether birds are dinosaurs, or when Africa was last attached to Brazil, or which kind of cholesterol is good for you after all. It’s all grist for the same mill: how odd it is how odd the world turns out to be. I am, as I say, addicted, and I keep a sharp eye out for trends. Over

Vol. 21 No. 19 · 30 September 1999 Diary Why the brain? Jerry Fodor Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2631 words Why, why, does everyone go on so about the brain? Each Tuesday, the New York Times does its section on science, to which I am addicted. I like best the astrophysical stuff on pulsars and quasars and black holes and how old and far away everything is; there's a pleasantly vertiginous aftertaste that sometimes lasts until 'Arts and Entertainment' comes out on Saturday. But I'm quite prepared to settle for the breaking news on whether birds are dinosaurs, or when Afr

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