Folk Psychology Re Assessed

Download or read book Folk Psychology Re-Assessed written by D. Hutto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a truly groundbreaking work that examines today’s notions of folk psychology. Bringing together disciplines as various as cognitive science and anthropology, the authors analyze the consensual views of the subject. The contributors all maintain that current understandings of folk psychology and of the mechanisms that underlie it need to be revised, supplemented or dismissed altogether. That’s why this book is essential reading for those in the field.