Rethinking Commonsense Psychology

A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation

By: Matthew Ratcliffe

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Hardcover | 1 February 2007 | Edition Number 1

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This book proposes a series of interconnected arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves the use of a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology. Ratcliffe suggests that folk psychology, construed as the attribution of internal mental states in order to predict and explain behaviour, is a theoretically motivated and misleading abstraction from social life. He draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology to offer an alternative account that emphasizes patterned interactions between people in shared social situations.

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'Rethinking Commonsense Psychology offers the to-date most detailed and sophisticated critique of the wide-spread philosophical dogma according to which humans understand each other by means of 'folk psychology'. Drawing on a number of philosophical traditions as well as recent results in psychology and neuroscience, Ratcliffe not only refutes the dogma, but replaces it with a novel view. Rethinking Commonsense Psychology will be required reading for philosophers of psychology, developmental psychologists and cognitive scientists alike.' - Professor Martin Kusch, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

'Ratcliffe covers every detail of a thorough repudiation of standard accounts of how we understand other people. Folk psychology is dead and we can forget it since, as Ratcliffe shows, we clearly do not need it for purposes of understanding others or even explaining how we understand others. Ratcliffe has eliminated FP, not in the way that some hard-line reductionists would want it eliminated, but by showing its irrelevancy. The hard-line reductionists no longer need to worry about FP; at the same time, Ratcliffe provides them with much more serious things to worry about, since reductionism is dead too.' - Shaun Gallagher, Chair and Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

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Preface	p. ix
Commonsense Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation	p. 1
Belief-desire psychology	p. 3
Theory or simulation?	p. 8
Development and evolution	p. 16
A place to start	p. 20
Where is the Commonsense in Commonsense Psychology?	p. 27
Natural born dualists?	p. 29
Commonsense as taken-for-granted reality	p. 36
The origins of 'folk psychology'	p. 42
What do the folk have to say?	p. 46
Science and folk psychology	p. 52
The World We Live in	p. 58
The commonsense world	p. 59
Heidegger's world	p. 62
Heidegger on other people	p. 70
Gurwitsch on situations and roles	p. 74
Encountering others	p. 78
Letting the World Do the Work	p. 85
Norms, roles and functions	p. 86
Situations are reasons	p. 96
The development of social ability	p. 98
Social interaction as embodied, embedded cognition	p. 107
Social situations and belief-desire psychology	p. 118
Perceiving Actions	p. 121
Experiencing others	p. 123
Evidence from neuroscience	p. 129
The minor system: applications and limitations	p. 139
Emotion in expression and meaning in gesture	p. 143
Explaining action without FP	p. 149
The Second Person	p. 152
Wherefore art Thou?	p. 154
Sartre on intersubjectivity	p. 158
Interaction	p. 164
Conversational interaction	p. 173
Simulation or simulated interaction?	p. 180
Denying people	p. 184
Beliefs and Desires	p. 186
Everyday 'belief and 'desire'	p. 187
'Belief and 'desire' in FP	p. 190
Experience and belief	p. 197
Beliefs, desires and commitments	p. 199
Beliefs as indeterminate dispositions	p. 205
Narratives	p. 211
Understanding reasoning	p. 216
The Personal Stance	p. 222
Evolution and development	p. 224
The impersonal personal stance	p. 230
Phenomenology, science and naturalism	p. 234
Notes	p. 245
References	p. 255
Index	p. 265
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