From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: Case Against Belief - Hardcover

Stich, Stephen P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262192152 ISBN 13: 9780262192156

Verlag: MIT Press, 1983

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Book by Stich Stephen P

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Reseña del editor

The average person has a rich belief system about the thoughts and motives of people. From antiquity to the beginning of this century, Stephen Stich points out, this "folk psychology" was employed in such systematic psychology as there was: "Those who theorized about the mind shared the bulk of their terminology and their conceptual apparatus with poets, critics, historians, economists, and indeed with their own grandmothers." In this book, Stich puts forth the radical thesis that the notions of believing, desiring, thinking, prefering, feeling, imagining, fearing, remembering and many other common-sense concepts that comprise the folk psychological foundations of cognitive psychology should not - and do not - play a significant role in the scientific study of the mind. Stephen P. Stich is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland.

Biografía del autor

Judith L. Goldstein is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0262192152
• ISBN 13: 9780262192156
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272