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Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

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Jerry Fodor
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: April 22
Died: 2017
Died: November 29
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New York City
New York
Jerry Alan Fodor
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