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 Reference
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]