The Debate about Folk Psychology


Essay, 2016

9 Pages, Grade: 1,3


Abstract or Introduction

Folk psychology is often simply addressed as a rough-known set of concepts, generalisations and rules of thumb we all standardly use to explain and predict human behaviour. It is also often referred as common sense psychology since the term “folk” seems to be depictive and unscientific as in “folk physics” or “folk biology” which seem to characterize a more simplistic and superfluous version of the “real” sciences.

The idea of folk psychology seems to be claiming for scientific grounding to be true. But with that certain problems, such as the very basic question of folk psychology as a real science and theory arise, which shall be inquired in the following sections.

Details

Title
The Debate about Folk Psychology
College
Ruhr-University of Bochum  (Institut für Philosophie)
Course
Seminar: Mental Representations
Grade
1,3
Author
Year
2016
Pages
9
Catalog Number
V345135
ISBN (eBook)
9783668348332
ISBN (Book)
9783668348349
File size
784 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Mental Representations, Eliminativsm, Eliminativsmus, Materialism, Materialismus, Folk Psychology
Quote paper
Christian Risse (Author), 2016, The Debate about Folk Psychology, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/345135

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