As True as "You Think": Preserving the Core of Folk Psychology

Sharlow, Mark (2007) As True as "You Think": Preserving the Core of Folk Psychology.

Abstract

In this paper I argue in defense of an important fragment of folk psychology. Specifically, I argue that many propositions about the ontology of mental states and about mental causation are true largely because of certain observable features of human linguistic behavior. I conclude that these propositions are immune to common avenues of eliminativist criticism. I compare and contrast this argument with some previous arguments about the truth of folk psychology.