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Folk Psychology Re-Assessed
. Ed(S): Hutto, Daniel D.; Ratcliffe, Matthew M.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Hutto, Daniel D.; Ratcliffe, Matthew M. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 409.
1.1. FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, THEORY OF MIND AND SIMULATION The tasks we face in our day to day social lives are quite heterogeneous but many of them make a common demand upon us. They require us to understand and interact with other people and, in most social encounters, we exhibit a special sensitivity to our fellow human beings that is quite different from the way we respond to inanimate objects and most other species of organism. Social life is dependent, to a considerable degree, on our ability to understand what is distinctive about human behaviour and to successfully apply that understanding ... Read more
1.1. FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, THEORY OF MIND AND SIMULATION The tasks we face in our day to day social lives are quite heterogeneous but many of them make a common demand upon us. They require us to understand and interact with other people and, in most social encounters, we exhibit a special sensitivity to our fellow human beings that is quite different from the way we respond to inanimate objects and most other species of organism. Social life is dependent, to a considerable degree, on our ability to understand what is distinctive about human behaviour and to successfully apply that understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048173938
SKU
V9789048173938
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Hutto, Daniel D.; Ratcliffe, Matthew M.
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Folk Psychology Re-Assessed
From the reviews: "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. ... Read more