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The Folk Implosion is an American band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow and John Davis. [2] It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore different territory than that which was being canvassed with his primary band at the time, Sebadoh. [2]
Jan 1, 2006 · It has been assumed that folk psychology involves two practices, the prediction and explanation of behavior. And it has been assumed that one cognitive mechanism subsumes both these practices.
Its central thesis is that folk psychology involves a variety of strategies and goals. On this view, terms like mindreading, mentalizing, and theory of mind refer to more strategies than just propositional attitude attribution, and are used for goals beyond behavior prediction and explanation.
- Kristin Andrews, Shannon Spaulding, Evan Westra
- 2021
One of the great innovations of twentieth-century philosophy was the idea that everyday psychological terms—words like ‘belief,’ ‘desire,’ and ‘imagining’—could be seen as theoretical terms (Sellars, 1956). The supposed theory featuring those terms came to be called folk psychology.
Eliminativists hold that folk psychology presents an inaccurate and misleading picture of what causes human behaviour – they regard its principles to be false and its ontology as an illusion (Churchland 1979, 1981, 1991).
definition of ‘folk psychology’ equates it to the way – whatever it turns out to be – that social beings manage to conduct interpersonal relations (Hornsby 1997, pp. 4–5).
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In this article, we take up Oude Maatman's challenge and develop an argument showing in what sense folk psychological concepts describe features of reality, and what it means to say that folk psychology is a causal language.
