| 10 | The Fate of Folk Psychology |
FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
A couple of decades ago much was being said about the reduction of psychology and the other social sciences to neurophysiology. Today this reduction, at least in the received sense of deductive theory-reduction by means of type-type connections, has come to seem a very unlikely possibility. Instead, one now speaks of the correction and, possibly, elimination of psychology, or one opposes such views. In this chapter, the issues in this debate are surveyed and commented on mainly from the point of view of scientific realism. To the extent I am developing and defending a position on the relevant ontological and epistemological problems, it is, vaguely ...
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