Individualism and the NewLogical Connections Argument
Individualism and the NewLogical Connections Argument

Summary/Abstract: Jerry Fodor argues for individualism and for narrow content by way ofrejecting an argument based on the conceptual connections between reason-properties and action-properties. In this paper I show that Fodor’s argumentfails. He is right that there is a New Logical Connections Argument to bemade, and that it does show that water thoughts and XYZ thoughts are notdifferent causal powers with respect to intentional properties of behaviors.However, the New Logical Connections Argument also shows that they arenot causal powers at all with respect to intentional properties of behaviors,and so Fodor’s argument to individualism and narrow content is unsound.Along the way I show that Fodor’s version of the New Logical Connectionsargument has serious problems of overkill.

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