Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation

by Matthew Ratcliffe

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What is it to understand another person? A popular view in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and various other disciplines is that interpersonal understanding is a matter of employing a 'commonsense' or 'folk' psychology, consisting primarily of an ability to attribute internal propositional attitudes on the basis of behavioural observations. The emphasis of recent debates has been on which mechanisms enable us to do this, how they arise during...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230221203

ISBN13:9780230221208

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:271 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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