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Folk psychological narratives : the sociocultural basis of understanding reasons / Daniel D. Hutto

Author
Hutto, Daniel D.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages)
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Contents
1. The limits of spectatorial folk psychology -- 2. The narrative practice hypothesis -- 3. Intentional attitudes -- 4. Imaginative extensions -- 5. Linguistic transformations -- 6. Unprincipled embodied engagements -- 7. Getting a grip on the attitudes -- 8. No native mentalizers -- 9. No child's science -- 10. Three motivations and a challenge -- 11. First communions -- 12. Ultimate origins and creation myths.
Summary
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.
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9780262275996 (electronic bk.)
0262275996 (electronic bk.)
9781435609082 (electronic bk.)
1435609085 (electronic bk.)
1282099132
9781282099135
0262083671
9780262083676
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"A Bradford book."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-328) and index.
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