folk psychology

Cognitive science and folk psychology: the right frame of mind.

In this way, the union between analogy and folk psychology was inevitable.

Eliminativists argue the same in the case of folk psychology.

The ancient Greeks already had a folk psychology comparable to modern views.

In our 'folk psychology' of knowledge, the relation between action and knowledge is that secure.

It looks silly from the perspective of our so-called 'folk psychology' of thinking.

This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception, language, memory or any other cognitive process.

Furthermore, they argue, folk psychology's development in the last 2,500 years has not been significant and it is therefore a stagnating theory.

He examined the consequences of this debate for the status of folk psychology.

Folk psychology retains characteristics of now obsolete theories or legends from the past.

Hence, the syntactic structures which are assumed by folk psychology can have no place in such a structure as the brain.

Folk psychology is crucial to evaluating and ultimately understanding novel concepts and items.

Jerry Fodor, among others, argues that folk psychology is, in fact, a successful (even indispensable) theory.

The doctrine of holism, by contrast, challenges our folk psychology of thought (see Note 1).

Consciousness and folk psychology are separate issues and it is possible to take an eliminative stance on one but not the other.

Such eliminativists have developed different arguments to show that folk psychology is a seriously mistaken theory and needs to be abolished.

Will and intention are now dismissed as folk psychology by aggressive philosophers extrapolating from the neurosciences.

Wilhelm Wundt a German psychologist was a pioneer in folk psychology.

Folk psychology and analogy are linked.

New data about parasomnias are emerging in the context of a "folk psychology" that has been shaped by a century of Freudian opinion.

In fact, the theory of causation, that of cause and effect is also part of folk psychology, and does not constitute science.

Folk psychology, or commonsense psychology, is the natural capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people.

Patricia and Paul Churchland argued that folk psychology will be gradually replaced as neuroscience matures.

It has also been urged against folk psychology that the intentionality of mental states like belief imply that they have semantic qualities.

"Intentional action in folk psychology: An experimental investigation", Philosophical Psychology 16, pp.