Title: From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief
Author: Stich, Stephen P.
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: 1983
Edition: First Edition
SKU: 430581
Condition: Used: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book, neither ex-library nor marked as a remainder. Dust jacket has light wear. Binding is strong and all signatures are intact. Boards are dished outwards toward the edges. Text block has a few unobtrusive pencil markings. All leaves are intact; no dog-ears; rear endpaper has a creased corner. 266 pp. <br /><br />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.

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