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Video Lecture #4

The Basics of Folk Psychology
​| Dr. Carrie Figdor

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The Basics of Folk Psychology
​| Dr. Carrie Figdor


Dr. Carrie Figdor's video lecture about #FolkPsychology from A Beginner's Guide To Neural Mechanisms. Made via collaboration between @neuralmechanisms942 and @PhilosophyOfBrains with generous funding from the @templetonworldcharityfound4808 in partnership with @dukeuniversity and those listed in the video credits.
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SUGGESTED READING

Churchland, P. M. (1979), Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Churchland, P. M. (1981), “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”, The Journal of Philosophy, 78(2): 67–90. doi:10.2307/2025900

Churchland, P. M. (1989), A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dennett, D. C. (1985), Brainstorms, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 Dennett, D. C. (1987), The Intentional Stance, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dennett, D. C. (1991), “Real Patterns”, The Journal of Philosophy, 88(1): 27–51. doi:10.2307/2027085

Figdor, C. (2018), Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Figdor, C. (2017), "On the Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates", Synthese 194 (11): 4289-4310.

Francken, J.C., Slors, M. & Craver, C.F. (2022), "Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: three foundational problems". Synthese 200, 378.

Fodor, J. A. (1981), Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Fodor, J. A. (1983), The Modularity of Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

,Fodor, J. A. (1987), Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hutto, D. and Ravenscroft, I. (2021), "Folk Psychology as a Theory", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/folkpsych-theory/>.

McCaffrey J, Wright J. (2022), "Neuroscience and Cognitive Ontology: A Case for Pluralism". In: De Brigard F, Sinnott-Armstrong W, editors. Neuroscience and Philosophy. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. 

Viola, M. (2017). Carving Mind at Brain’s Joints. The Debate on Cognitive Ontology. Phenomenology and Mind, (12), 162–172.



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