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Single Idea 2074
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Full Idea
The desire that grips Fodor, as it once gripped me, is the desire to make belief-desire psychology "scientific" by simply identifying it outright with computational psychology.
Gist of Idea
Can we give a scientific, computational account of folk psychology?
Source
Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], p.7)
Book Ref
Putnam,Hilary: 'Representation and Reality' [MIT 1992], p.7
A Reaction
An "outright" identification looks very implausible. It seems that we should accept that belief-desire psychology is a very good guide to normal brain events, but a bad guide to unusual brain events. See Ideas 2987 and 7519.
Related Ideas
Idea 2987
Folk psychology works badly for alien cultures [Lyons]
Idea 7519
Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM]
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[is the truth about minds found in normal speech?]:
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2074
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Can we give a scientific, computational account of folk psychology?
[Putnam]
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3462
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We don't postulate folk psychology, we experience it
[Searle]
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6996
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Folk psychology covers input, internal role, and output
[Jackson]
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3387
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A culture without our folk psychology would be quite baffling
[Kim]
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3386
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Folk psychology has been remarkably durable
[Kim]
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3394
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Maybe folk psychology is a simulation, not a theory
[Kim]
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3410
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Folk psychology has adapted to Freudianism
[Kim]
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3992
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Folk psychology makes good predictions, by associating mental states with causal roles
[Lewis]
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7518
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If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism
[Churchland,PM]
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7519
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Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology
[Churchland,PM]
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7520
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Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science
[Churchland,PM]
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3987
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Like the 'centre of gravity', desires and beliefs are abstract concepts with no actual existence
[Dennett]
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3177
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You couldn't drive a car without folk psychology
[Dennett]
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3975
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Folk psychology explains behaviour by reference to intentional states like belief and desire
[Fodor]
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2988
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Folk psychology is the only explanation of behaviour we have
[Fodor]
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2987
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Folk psychology works badly for alien cultures
[Lyons]
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4607
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Folk psychology and neuroscience are no more competitors than cartography and geology are
[Heil]
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3112
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Folk psychology is ridiculously dualist in its assumptions
[Segal]
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15680
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Folk essentialism rests on belief in natural kinds, in hidden properties, and on words indicating structures
[Gelman]
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