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How do we understand other people’s behaviours? The standard answer, according to our best philosophy of mind textbooks and social cognition papers, is that we understand another’s behaviour by attributing beliefs and desires to them, and this practice of attributing beliefs and desires to others in order to explain and predict their behaviours is known as ‘commonsense’ or ‘folk’ psychology. These epithets were intended to capture the humdrum nature of such explanations: one need not be a professional psychologist to apply them; any person, without any formal training, can, and indeed does, create explanations of their own behaviours and those of others using the belief-desire framework. It is, as Fodor puts it, the daily psychological strategy deployed by the ‘Man on the Clapham Omnibus’ (1985/1993, p. 272).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind |
Editors | Julian Kiverstein |
Place of Publication | Abingdon; New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 10 |
Pages | 172-188 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315530178 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138827691 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Dec 2016 |
Publication series
Name | Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy |
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Publisher | Routledge |
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Suilin Lavelle
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Senior Lecturer
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