The Philosophy of Psychology
beaches of Spain, we will start to doubt whether that attribution was correct. There must be something wrong with the Davidsonia ...
one individual, each of which conforms to the norms of rationality, but which fail to interact (1982a). Now we do not deny that ...
We can adopt the intentional stance very widely, even when we do not seriously suppose that we are dealing with a rational agent ...
Haugeland, and Fodor and Lepore.) We must move on to making a positive case for realism about folk psychology. 3 The case for re ...
3.1 The Turing test Turing (1950) proposed that instead of asking whether a computer could think, we should see if we could prog ...
operates by pattern-matching? We would no longer seriously suppose that Superparrybelieveswhat it says, or that its words are ex ...
mental life – with all of the experiences, and many of the thoughts and desires, of you or I. But there is no behaviour here to ...
added that this amounts to no more than the fact that there really are the appropriate patternings in people’s behaviour. (2)Cat ...
Kenny, 1963; and many others). Their complaints against the causal thesis, however, fail to impress us. They claim that oVering ...
pillar and having a visual experienceas of a pillarwere not jointly suYcient conditions for seeingthatpillar. For suppose there ...
have found (ii) a very interesting topic, especially in connection with names and deWnite descriptions. But let us consider (i)W ...
3.4 Varieties of realism We have been defending realism of intention with respect to folk psychol- ogy. But what about the initi ...
1991): the states which are nomically related may be role states, rather than realiser states. That is to say, the states which ...
only if realism (of intention) is right can folk psychology beradically incorrect in this sense. By contrast, there is nothing m ...
can judge folk psychology to be an inadequate theory – ripe for elimination and replacement by neuroscientiWcally informed theor ...
theories, for it is re-applied countless times, with endless individual vari- ation in each new generation. (3) Churchland’s (19 ...
this lack of micro-congruity is no more bad news for folk psychology, than is the fact that money can be diVerent sorts of stuVi ...
be said about assessments of predictive power. It is diYcult to assess the ‘predictive power’ of folk psychology, since many of ...
psychology needed to work well in small, tribal groups; and there is no reason to think that they do not. That makes it unlikely ...
psychologycouldserve all these purposes unless it were through having a theoreticalcorewhich can be used, quasi-scientiWcally, t ...
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