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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. [Preprint]

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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.

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Sharlow, Mark
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Keywords: folk psychology, eliminativism, eliminative materialism
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Mark Sharlow
Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2008
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID: 3763
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date: May 2007
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3763

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