Folk psychology as a model
Philosophers' Imprint 5 (6):1-16 (2005)
| Abstract | I argue that everyday folk-psychological skill might best be explained in terms of the deployment of something like a model, in a specific sense drawn from recent philosophy of science. Theoretical models in this sense do not make definite commitments about the systems they are used to understand; they are employed with a particular kind of flexibility. This analysis is used to dissolve the eliminativism debate of the 1980s, and to transform a number of other questions about the status and role of folk psychology. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Eliminativism Folk Psychology Mind Model Science Simulation | |||||||||
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