Suppose Nothing Is Simple. A Polemic with Paweł Gładziejewski Concerning Folk Psychology Cover Image

Załóżmy, że nie jest najprościej. Polemika z Pawłem Gładziejewskim na temat psychologii potocznej
Suppose Nothing Is Simple. A Polemic with Paweł Gładziejewski Concerning Folk Psychology

Author(s): Witold M. Hensel
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: folk (naive) psychology; propositional attitudes; naturalization of intentionality (content/meaning); eliminative materialism; mechanism

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a polemic with Paweł Gładziejewski’s account of the relation between folk psychology and cognitive science. According to Gładziejewski, folk psychological explanations operate at a higher level than those offered by cognitive science, but cognitive science is not independent of folk psychology, as the latter provides the former with explananda. I argue that, according to Gładziejewski’s own account, folk psychology cannot provide cognitive science with explananda because it is too deflated and too narrowly construed. However, if one makes it sufficiently broad and interprets it more realistically, then it may very well be incompatible with cognitive science.

  • Issue Year: 25/2017
  • Issue No: 3 (99)
  • Page Range: 81-99
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish