Overview
- The contributors are a group of highly respected authors, working in the disciplines of philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, narrative theory and developmental psychology
- A range of criticisms of orthodox conceptions of folk psychology, theory of mind and simulation are brought together for the first time, together comprising a serious challenge to an established and hugely influential paradigm in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and various other fields
- Richly interdisciplinary, drawing on phenomenology, neuroscience, developmental psychology, philosophy of mind and narrative theory
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Emotion, Perception, and Interaction
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Reasons, Norms, Narratives and Institutions
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The Fragmentation of Folk Psychology
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Reviews
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"Traditionally folk psychology is understood as our ability to predict and explain the behavior of other people by attributing intentional states (beliefs, desires, etc.) to them. Debates about the status of folk psychology have been going on for decades. … Folk Psychology Re-Assessed contributes some interesting angles to the mainstream folk-psychology debate. … the volume will appeal to work in philosophy of mind, neuroscience and experimental psychology … . I think the volume is probably most useful … in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses." (Christina Behme, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 12 (11), 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Matthew Ratcliffe is Reader in Philosophy at Durham University in England. Most of his recent work addresses issues in phenomenology, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of psychiatry. He is author of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (Palgrave, 2007) and Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Folk Psychology Re-Assessed
Editors: Daniel D. Hutto, Matthew Ratcliffe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5558-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5557-7Published: 04 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7393-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5558-4Published: 06 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 254
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Developmental Psychology, Phenomenology, Personality and Social Psychology