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.
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
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- 2.1 From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief
- 2.2 Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate
- 2.3 Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences (A Bradford Book)
- 2.4 Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- 2.5 Elements of Folk Psychology: Outlines of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind (Classic Reprint)
- 2.6 The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science
- 2.7 African American Folk Healing
- 2.8 Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works (Psychology)
- 2.9 The Many-Minded Man: The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic (Myth and Poetics II)
- 2.10 Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception
Videos
From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief
- Stich, Stephen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 280 Pages - 02/20/1985 (Publication Date) - The M.I.T. Press (Publisher)
Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate
- Used Book in Good Condition
- English (Publication Language)
- 312 Pages - 11/15/1995 (Publication Date) - Wiley-Blackwell (Publisher)
Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences (A Bradford Book)
- Stueber, Karsten (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 08/13/2010 (Publication Date) - A Bradford Book (Publisher)
Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- Ratcliffe, M. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 284 Pages - 09/11/2008 (Publication Date) - Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Elements of Folk Psychology: Outlines of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind (Classic Reprint)
- Wundt, Wilhelm Max (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 566 Pages - 02/09/2017 (Publication Date) - Forgotten Books (Publisher)
The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Greenwood, John D. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 10/25/1991 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
African American Folk Healing
- Mitchem, Stephanie (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 200 Pages - 07/01/2007 (Publication Date) - NYU Press (Publisher)
Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works (Psychology)
- Hardcover Book
- Povinelli, Daniel J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 408 Pages - 11/16/2000 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
The Many-Minded Man: The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic (Myth and Poetics II)
- Hardcover Book
- Christensen, Joel (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 186 Pages - 12/15/2020 (Publication Date) - Cornell University Press (Publisher)
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception
- Barker, K. Brandon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 264 Pages - 04/22/2019 (Publication Date) - Indiana University Press (Publisher)
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