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Matthew Ratcliffe - Rethinking Commonsense Psychology - 9780230221208 - V9780230221208
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Rethinking Commonsense Psychology

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Description for Rethinking Commonsense Psychology Paperback. This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction. His alternative account draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology, exploring patterned interactions in shared social situations. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction. His alternative account draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology, exploring patterned interactions in shared social situations.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230221208
SKU
V9780230221208
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About Matthew Ratcliffe
MATTHEW RATCLIFFE is Reader in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (2008) and co-editor of Folk Psychology Re-assessed (2007).

Reviews for Rethinking Commonsense Psychology
'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 ... Read more

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