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The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology » Read Now
by Garth Fletcher. 111 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology Garth Fletcher University of Canterbury...Garth J. O. The scientific credibility...
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Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind » Read Now
by Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner. 442 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...FOLK PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND FOLK PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Edited by Scott M...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Folk...
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Deconstructing the Mind (Chap. 2 "Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology" and Chap. 3 "What Is Folk Psychology?") » Read Now
by Stephen P. Stich. 222 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been centre stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the...
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Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been centre stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the mind, and of its ontology. In the first half of this book Stich, who was at one time a leading advocate of eliminativism, maintains that even if the sciences develop in the ways that eliminativists foresee, none of the arguments for ontological elimination are tenable. Rather than being resolved by science, he contends, these ontological disputes will be settled by a pragmatic process in which social and political considerations have a major role to play. In later chapters, Stich argues that the widespread worry about "naturalizing" psychological properties is deeply confused, since there is no plausible account of what naturalizing requires on which the failure of the naturalization project would lead to eliminativism. He also offers a detailed analysis of the many different notions of folk psychology to be found in philosophy and psychology, and argues that simulation theory, which purports to be an alternative to folk psychology, is not supported by recent experimental findings.
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Cognitive Science and Psychoanalysis (Chap. 9 "Folk Psychology) » Read Now
by Kenneth Mark Colby, Robert J. Stoller. 170 pgs.

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...OFFER / 93 9 FOLK PSYCHOLOGY / 109 10...many sources, including the folk psychology used to describe the phenomena...from artificial intelligence, psychology folk...
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The Mind Matters: Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World (Chap. 7 "Folk Psychology") » Read Now
by David Hodgson. 486 pgs.

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In this book, Hodgson presents a clear and compelling case against today's orthodox mechanistic view of the brain-mind, and in favor of the view that "the mind matters." In the course of the argument he ranges over such topics as consciousness, informal reasoning, computers, evolution, and quantum...
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In this book, Hodgson presents a clear and compelling case against today's orthodox mechanistic view of the brain-mind, and in favor of the view that "the mind matters." In the course of the argument he ranges over such topics as consciousness, informal reasoning, computers, evolution, and quantum indeterminancy and non-locality. Although written from a philosophical viewpoint, the book has important implications for the sciences concerned with the brain-mind problem. At the same time, it is largely non-technical, and thus accessible to the non-specialist reader.
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The Philosophy of Psychology (Chap. 2 "Folk-Psychological Commitments") » Read Now
by George Botterill, Peter Carruthers. 297 pgs.

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This book presents an original and accessible analysis of the relationship between commonsense, or "folk," psychology and contemporary scientific psychology, focusing on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our commonsense self-image. It is designed as a textbook for...
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This book presents an original and accessible analysis of the relationship between commonsense, or "folk," psychology and contemporary scientific psychology, focusing on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our commonsense self-image. It is designed as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students in philosophy and cognitive science, but as a text that not only surveys but advances the debates on the topics discussed, it will also be of interest to researchers working in these areas.
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Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience (Chap. 10 "The Fate of Folk Psychology") » Read Now
by Antti Revonsuo, Matti Kamppinen. 302 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...Theory 211 10 The Fate of Folk Psychology 227 11 In Search...importance of consciousness. Our folk psychology holds that feelings can cause...flatly contradicts this axiom...
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Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Chap. 2 "From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Ethnology") » Read Now
by Carolyn A. Ristau. 332 pgs.

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...Disparagement of "Folk Psychology" 9 Criteria...Introduction 19 Folk Psychology 20 Functionalism...Psychology 261 Folk Psychology and the Study of Animal Minds...
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Approaches to Intentionality ("The Representational Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology" begins on p. 53 and "The Propositional Attitudes as Folk Psychology" begins on p. 240) » Read Now
by William Lyons. 261 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Approaches to Intentionality is an authoritative and accessible account of a problem central to contemporary philosopy of mind. Lyons first gives a critical survey of the current debate about the nature of intentionality, then moves on to offer an original new theory. The book is written throughout in a clear, direct, and lively style.
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Foundations of Cognitive Science: The Essential Readings ("Folk Psychology as a Source of Theory" begins on p. 88) » Read Now
by Jay L. Garfield. 433 pgs.

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...THE COGNITIVE VOCABULARY AND FOLK PSYCHOLOGY Most people implicitly hold...pointing out the errors in folk psychology, it nonetheless far surpasses...or level of...
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Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science ("Philosophy without Folk Psychology?" begins on p. 140) » Read Now
by Tom Sorell. 208 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Since the time of Bacon, Galileo and Descartes, philosophers have identified strongly with the aims of natural science and the rationality of its methods. This is the first full-length study of scientism, the belief that science is the best and most important branch of learning.Tom Sorell is...
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Since the time of Bacon, Galileo and Descartes, philosophers have identified strongly with the aims of natural science and the rationality of its methods. This is the first full-length study of scientism, the belief that science is the best and most important branch of learning.Tom Sorell is critical of the scientistic tendency in philosophy. However, he does not seek to denigrate science. Rather he argues that the arts and humanities are undervalued. Sorell insists that philosophy is not science and condemns recent attempts in the name of 'naturalism' to revive the project of scientific philosophy.
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Philosophy of Social Science ("Making Folk Psychology Explicit" begins on p. 29) » Read Now
by Alexander Rosenberg. 242 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...ACTION 28 Making Folk Psychology Explicit , 29...Machine , 70 Folk Psychology Formalized: The Theory of Rational...known as "common sense" or "folk psychology," tells us...
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The Good and the True ("The 'Folk-Psychology' Myth" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Michael Morris. 336 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Morris presents a detailed...
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This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Morris presents a detailed analysis of content and propositional attitudes based on the idea that truth is a value. He rejects the causal theory of the explanation of behavior and replaces it with an alternative that depends upon a rich conception of the behavior we explain with references to state of mind. His lucid and detailed exposition of this controversial arguments poses an emphatic challenge to the naturalistic orthodoxy in areas as diverse as metaphysics, ethics, and cognitive science.
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