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folk psychology

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folk psychology

Ways of conceptualizing mind and the mental that are implicit in our ordinary, everyday attributions of mental states to ourselves and others. Philosophers have adopted different positions about the extent to which folk psychology and its generalizations (e.g., those portraying human actions as governed by intention) are supported by the findings of scientific psychology. Some consider it indispensible to understanding human conduct. Others (“eliminative materialists”) think that it can and perhaps will be replaced by scientific psychology.



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This finding is consistent with some previous studies of the Estonian lexicon of emotion (Allik and Realo 1997), as well as with the division found in folk psychology (Vainik 2002).
271), as in the explanatory fictions of folk psychology or a thoroughgoing natural science account.
Narrative, he further suggested, is the process in which a folk psychology is elaborated and represented.
 
 
 
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