# Modularity of Mind (MIT 1983) - Jerry A. Fodor **Opening (not a real abstract):** This monograph started as some rather light -hearted lecture notes for a graduate course on contemporary cognitive theory that Noam Chomsky and I taught together in the fall of 1980. Scholarship is the process by which butterflies are transmuted into caterpillarsmany drafts have flowed beneath the bridge since then. What has helped to make the process bearable is the generosity with which friends, relatives, colleagues, and occasionalabsolute strangershave chipped in with advice, criticism, encouragement, and useful in formation . I am deeply indebted to at least the following : Ned Block, Susan Block, William Brewer, N oam Chomsky, Daniel Dennett, Scott Fahlman, Howard Gardner, Henry Gleitman, Lila Gleit man, Michael Hamish, Peter Jusczyk, David Kaplan, Thomas Kuhn, Al vin Liberman, John Limber, John Marshall, William MarslenWilson, Robert Matthews, Ignatius Mattingly , JacquesMehler, Mary