Folk Psychology, Theories, and the Sellarsian Roots

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By this author: de Vries, Willem

Author: de Vries, Willem

Source: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, The Self-Correcting Enterprise: Essays on Wilfred Sellars. Edited by Michael P. Wolf and Mark Norris Lance , pp. 53-84(32)

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Abstract:

Almost fifty years ago, Wilfrid Sellars first proposed that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts. Since then, several different research programs have been based on this conjecture. This essay examines what his original claim really amounted to and what it was supposed to accomplish, and then uses that understanding of the original project to investigate the extent to which the later research projects expand on it or depart from it.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-01-01