TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Ohreen
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology
T2  - A Socio-Linguistic Approach
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096948
N2  - Explaining behaviour is ubiquitous in our society. We are constantly trying to figure out what other people are doing and will do. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical and psychological problems regarding how and why humans explain behaviour. The author answers key questions about how folk psychology develops in children, its roots in evolution, its status within society, its relation to philosophy of mind, and what sorts of folk psychological explanations should be considered rational. This assessment focuses on such theoretical positions as anti-realism, eliminativism, theory-theory, simulation theory, and modular theory in relation to folk psychology. The author argues for a radical, albeit intuitive, alternative, that folk psychology should be seen as product of the culture in which one is raised.
KW  - Soziolinguistik, Philosophy, Ontology, Realism, Rationality, Relativism, Symbolism, Völkerpsychologie, Folk Psychology
LA  - English
ER  -