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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"folk psychology"”.
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
Folk psychology has been an object of great philosophical interest for the last 50 years, but it remains obscure in many fundamental respects. One finds little consensus on what folk psychology is, how it works, and who uses it and how. My dissertation aims to resolve some of this confusion by …
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Raising the Independent Self: Folk Psychology and Folk Pedagogy in American Early Schooling
… I investigate the double-sided effects of their folk psychology and folk pedagogy, focusing on the discourses of individualized education, independence and autonomy, self-esteem, equality, rights and responsibilities, creativity and expressiveness, and early intervention. I discuss implications …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
… input to the three philosophy of mind debates: folk psychology, personal identity and free will. Prior to this I attempt to show that analytic philosophy in general might benefit from accepting ‘process’ philosophy as an already existing but neglected part of its rich heritage. This would enable …
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Falsche Überzeugungen verstehen : begriffliche und methodische Überlegungen zur Erforschung der alltagspsychologischen Praxis
… cognitive basis of attributing false beliefs in folk psychology is investigated. It is argued that this competence cannot be accounted for by the application of tacit psychological theories. A simulation-theory of reasoning processes is developed, and it is shown how it can be tested.
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Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development
… mental states. Philosophers call this ability folk psychology and developmental researchers call it theory of mind (ToM). My dissertation concerns how this reasoning works and how it is acquired. </p> <p>First, I develop and expand a theory of how folk psychology develops in childhood. This is …
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What it means to want
… the task of discharging them further. Chapter 1. Folk psychology and decision theory both represent our belieflike and desire- and preference-like states. Both use these representations to explain and predict our actions. If we can't account for one in terms of the other, we'd have a dubious …
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Inherited Ontologies and the Relations between Philosophy of Mind and the Empirical Cognitive Sciences
… I consider two examples of sets of concepts (“folk psychology” and the “architecture of the mind”) which are shared between the philosophy of mind and the empirical cognitive sciences and analyze them from both perspectives. I introduce a historical-analytical apparatus called “inherited …
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Intentionalität in der neueren Diskussion bei Dennett, Searle und Chisholm
… Begriffsinventars der, wie er abschätzig meint folk psychology, um Handlungen zu beschreiben, betont aber dabei immer, dass der Gebrauch rein metaphorisch bleibt. Die Frage ist, was Dennett nun mit Intentionalität bezeichnet. Nach Dennett interpretieren wir alle möglichen Vorgänge und Systeme …
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Liberal Attitude Reports
<p>Attitude reports are sentences such as “Tomasz thinks the Earth is flat” or “Susan wantsvice cream.” It is commonly assumed that the main reason people use them is to make sense of the reportee’s behavior: to explain their past actions, or predict future ones. To play this role effectively, …
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Choice Blindness: The Incongruence of Intention, Action and Introspection
This thesis is an empirical and theoretical exploration of the surprising finding that people often may fail to notice dramatic mismatches between what they want and what they get, a phenomenon my collaborators and I have named choice blindness. The thesis consists of four co-authored papers, …
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Lovable lamps and sad umbrellas : empathizing with inanimate objects in animated films.
Why do people empathize with movie characters who aren't human beings? What causes viewers to perceive inanimate objects as people, such as the hopping lamp in Pixar's Luxo Jr.? These questions are under-researched in scholarly literature. Thus, this study used an original, animated video as a …
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Problemas epistemológicos asociados a la implementación de la ilocutividad en teorías pragmáticas naturalistas
El objetivo de la tesis es identificar algunos problemas conceptuales originados por el intento de implementar los actos de habla en teorías pragmáticas inferencialistas. Especialmente, en aquellas que se preocupan especialmente en cumplir con las exigencias del programa naturalista. Para ello, se …