Simon Blackburn wrote a response to one of this thinker's essays, arguing that "metaphorical and flat-footed appeal[s] to Mother Nature" are not necessary to explain for the selection of traits.
Simon Blackburn wrote a response to one of this thinker's essays, arguing that "metaphorical and flat-footed appeal[s] to Mother Nature" are not necessary to explain for the selection of traits. In that essay, this thinker used the words of Hans Sachs from Der Meistersinger to help illustrate his argument for the "phylogeny" but against the "adaptionism" of Darwin. Besides his controversial London Review of Books essay "Why Pigs Don't Have Wings," this thinker would later revisit that same theme in his 2010 book What Darwin Got Wrong. The keystone to this thinker's philosophy of mind is his formulation of a semantic system which encapsulates propositional thoughts. For 10 points name this formulator of the "language of thought" hypothesis, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers. 
Simon Blackburn wrote a response to one of this thinker's essays, arguing that "metaphorical and flat-footed appeal[s] to Mother Nature" are not necessary to explain for the selection of traits.
Jerry Fodor