From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: Case Against Belief Book

"A common view of cognitive science is that it is succeeding in making honest scientific theories of our everyday mentalistic lore--doing for folk psychology more or less what Galileo did for folk physics. There are a variety of avenues to this optimistic and comfortable view: Stich claims to have blocked them all. . . This is the best sort of expert research and authorship. It is vivid, informed, up-to-the-minute, and vigorously argued." -- Daniel C. Dennett Stich's view of a scientific study of cognition cut loose from its folk underpinings is explored at length in this book. Notions such as believing, remembering, feeling, thinking, desiring, preferring, fearing, imagining and many other commonsense concepts that compromise the folk psychological foundations of cognitive science should not--and do not--play a significant role in the scientific study of the mind.Read More