书名: Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation
作者: Matthew Ratcliffe (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (February 6, 2007)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0230007104
ISBN-13: 978-0230007109
Book Description
This book proposes a series of interconnected arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves the use of a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology. Ratcliffe suggests that folk psychology, construed as the attribution of internal mental states in order to predict and explain behaviour, is a theoretically motivated and misleading abstraction from social life. He draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology to offer an alternative account that emphasizes patterned interactions between people in shared social situations.
Review
"Rethinking Commonsense Psychology offers the to-date most detailed and sophisticated critique of the wide-spread philosophical dogma according to which humans understand each other by means of 'folk psychology'. Drawing on a number of philosophical traditions as well as recent results in psychology and neuroscience, Ratcliffe not only refutes the dogma, but replaces it with a novel view. Rethinking Commonsense Psychology will be required reading for philosophers of psychology, developmental psychologists and cognitive scientists alike." --Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge
About the Author
MATTHEW RATCLIFFE is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University.
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作者: Matthew Ratcliffe (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (February 6, 2007)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0230007104
ISBN-13: 978-0230007109
Book Description
This book proposes a series of interconnected arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves the use of a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology. Ratcliffe suggests that folk psychology, construed as the attribution of internal mental states in order to predict and explain behaviour, is a theoretically motivated and misleading abstraction from social life. He draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology to offer an alternative account that emphasizes patterned interactions between people in shared social situations.
Review
"Rethinking Commonsense Psychology offers the to-date most detailed and sophisticated critique of the wide-spread philosophical dogma according to which humans understand each other by means of 'folk psychology'. Drawing on a number of philosophical traditions as well as recent results in psychology and neuroscience, Ratcliffe not only refutes the dogma, but replaces it with a novel view. Rethinking Commonsense Psychology will be required reading for philosophers of psychology, developmental psychologists and cognitive scientists alike." --Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge
About the Author
MATTHEW RATCLIFFE is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University.
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