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Folk Psychology Re-Assessed

Matthew Ratcliffe

4.5/5 ( ratings)

This is a truly groundbreaking work that examines today's notions of folk psychology. Bringing together disciplines as various as cognitive science and anthropology, the authors analyze the consensual views of the subject.The contributors all maintain that current understandings of folk psychology and of the mechanisms that underlie it need to be revised, supplemented or dismissed altogether.Although there is considerable debate over which cognitive processes support our folk psychological abilities and how those abilities develop during childhood, there has up to now been a remarkable degree of consensus concerning what folk psychology involves.Most discussions begin by stating or assuming that it consists primarily of an ability to attribute propositional attitudes to humans and other organisms, in order to predict and explain their behavior.

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: September 04, 2007

ISBN: 1402055579

ISBN 13: 9781402055577

Folk Psychology Re-Assessed

Matthew Ratcliffe

4.5/5 ( ratings)

This is a truly groundbreaking work that examines today's notions of folk psychology. Bringing together disciplines as various as cognitive science and anthropology, the authors analyze the consensual views of the subject.The contributors all maintain that current understandings of folk psychology and of the mechanisms that underlie it need to be revised, supplemented or dismissed altogether.Although there is considerable debate over which cognitive processes support our folk psychological abilities and how those abilities develop during childhood, there has up to now been a remarkable degree of consensus concerning what folk psychology involves.Most discussions begin by stating or assuming that it consists primarily of an ability to attribute propositional attitudes to humans and other organisms, in order to predict and explain their behavior.

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: September 04, 2007

ISBN: 1402055579

ISBN 13: 9781402055577

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