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Dec 21, 2012 · Folk psychology is a network of principles which constitutes a sort of common-sense theory about how to explain human behavior. These principles provide a central role to certain propositional attitudes, particularly beliefs and desires.
- Martin Roth
- martin.roth@drake.edu
- 2013
In this chapter, I introduce three philosophical perspectives on the role of folk psychology in a mature cognitive neuroscience. One is integration (Gerrans 2014), which affirms that folk psychology plays a decisive role in defining the objects of scientific inquiry and guiding that inquiry.
In philosophy of mind and cognitive science, folk psychology, or commonsense psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people. [1] Processes and items encountered in daily life such as pain, pleasure, excitement, and anxiety use common linguistic terms as opposed to technical or scientific ...
There are very different views in philosophy and psychology concerning the nature of folk psychological states, ranging from eliminativism, to dispositionalism, to representationalsim. This chapter explains how those different ontological viewpoints bear on the project of explaining imagination.
A central premise in eliminativist arguments is that terms like “belief” and “desire” can be viewed as theoretical terms, in a tacit or unconscious theory of the mind, often called “folk psychology.”
Folk psychology has been characterized as the idea that there is a real me or “self” that resides in my body and is the subject of my experiences. The term is used by many functionalist philosophers and cognitive scientists to refer to an internal theory of human psychology used to predict behavior: a theory of mind in everyday talk about ...
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Sep 22, 1997 · On the internalist account of folk psychology (hereafter "folk psychology (internal)"), folk psychology is a theory of human psychology which is represented in the mind-brain and which underpins our everyday capacity to predict and explain the behavior of ourselves and others.
