Hochstein, Eric (2016) When Does ‘Folk Psychology’ Count as Folk Psychological? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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It has commonly been argued that certain types of mental descriptions, specifically those characterized in terms of propositional attitudes, are part of a folk psychological understanding of the mind. Recently, however, it has also been argued that this is the case even when such descriptions are employed as part of scientific theories in domains like social psychology and comparative psychology. In this paper, I argue that there is no plausible way to understand the distinction between folk and scientific psychology that can support such claims. Moreover, these sorts of claims can have adverse consequences for the neuroscientific study of the brain by downplaying the value of many psychological theories that provide information neuroscientists need in order to build and test neurological models.
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| Keywords: | folk psychology; scientific psychology; propositional attitudes; natural kinds | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Eric Hochstein | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2016 02:10 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2016 02:10 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11991 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1093/bjps/axv028 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience |
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| Date: | 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11991 |
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