Is Folk Psychology Mechanistically Neutral?

• Authors: Robert Poczobut

Title variants

PL

Czy psychologia potoczna jest mechanistycznie neutralna?

EN

Is Folk Psychology Mechanistically Neutral?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The aim of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of Paweł Gładziejewski’s position presented in chapter five of his book Wyjaśnianie za pomocą reprezentacji mentalnych. Perspektywa mechanistyczna (Explaining with Mental Representations. A Mechanistic Perspective). The chapter, entitled Reprezentacjonizm w kognitywistyce a problem naturalizacji intencjonalności (Representationalism in Cognitive Science and the Problem of Naturalizing Intentionality), is devoted to the status of folk psychology and propositional attitudes in the context of the mechanistic model of explanation in cognitive science. The paper also contains a sketch of an alternative naturalistic account of propositional attitudes compatible with the mechanistic model of representational explanation.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 101-117

Dates

published

2017-10-01

Contributors

author

Robert Poczobut