Abstract / Description of output
The role of culture in shaping folk psychology and mindreading has been neglected in the philosophical literature. This paper shows that there are significant cultural differences in how psychological states are understood and used by (1) drawing on Spaulding’s recent distinction between the ‘goals’ and ‘methods’of mindreading (2018) to argue that the relations between these methods vary across cultures; and (2) arguing that differences in folk psychology cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the cognitive architecture that facilitates our understanding of psychological states. The paper concludes that any good account of social cognition must have the conceptual resources to explain how culture affects our understanding of psychological states, and that this explanandum should not be an after-thought but instead a guiding feature for those accounts.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-24 |
Journal | Synthese |
Volume | N/A |
Early online date | 14 Nov 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 14 Nov 2019 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- social cognition
- mindreading
- cross-cultural psychology
- folk psychology
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Suilin Lavelle
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Senior Lecturer
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