bringing the folk back to folk psychology

By Craig Lambert Roxborough

To say that folk psychology has played a significant role in contemporary philosophy of mind would be an understatement. From metaphysics of mind to artificial intelligence, from consciousness studies to developmental psychology, folk psychology has played an essential role. It can act as a limiting condition on the possibility of the reduction of mental states to physical states, it can offer guiding principles in designing artificial cognitive systems, and in practice it has shaped entire domains of research in psychology and has significantly influenced the way we approach investigations in animal cognition research. The importance of folk psychology to our understanding of mind cannot be understated and philosophers have spilled a great deal of ink in a seemingly endless debate regarding the possible mechanisms that underlie our folk psychological competence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183520354X
• ISBN13: 9781835203545
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Abhimanyuhb2
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"