Term used in recent philosophy of mind for the view that beliefs, desires and so on exist and operate much as common sense assumes they do; that is, the operations of the mind can be adequately explained in terms of such notions, or (more strongly) that they cannot be adequately explained without them.
Strictly the term refers to such explanations themselves rather than to claims about their adequacy, but it is given point by recent claims that beliefs, desires and so on not only play no essential part in explaining mental phenomena, but do not even exist; that is, no phenomenon, and no set of features of our mental life, corresponds to our use of words like ‘belief and ‘desire’.
Strictly, therefore, such use is, on this view, incoherent, though harmless for ordinary purposes. ‘Folk psychology’ is an analogue in philosophy of mind of naive realism in epistemology.
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- 2.1 Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America
- 2.2 Elements of Folk Psychology
- 2.3 African American Folk Healing
- 2.4 Stories We Never Told
- 2.5 Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume II (Mind Association Occasional Series)
- 2.6 The MindCraft of MineCraft: An Unofficial MineCrafter's Adventure with a psychological twist
- 2.7 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: 7th Edition, 2020 Copyright
- 2.8 Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- 2.9 Healing the Folks Who Live Inside: How EMDR Can Heal Our Inner Gallery of Roles
- 2.10 The Folk Remedy Encyclopedia - Olive Oil, Vinegar, Honey And 1,001 Other Home Remedies
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Elements of Folk Psychology
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