Folk Theories of the Third Kind

Author: David Braddon-Mitchell

Source: Ratio, Volume 17, Number 3, September 2004 , pp. 277-293(17)

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Abstract:

The idea of a folk theory has played many important roles in much recent philosophy. To do the work they are designed for, they need to be both internal features of agents who possess them, and yet scrutable without the full resources of empirical cognitive science. The worry for the theorist of folk theories, is that only one of these desiderata is met in each plausible conception of a folk theory. This paper outlines a third conception that meets them both.¹

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0034-0006.2004.00254.x

Affiliations: 1: University of Sydney, Australia

Publication date: 2004-09-01