folk psychology
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffolkandpsychology
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folk
noun
uk/fəʊk/us/foʊk/
mainly UK
people, especially those of a particular group ...
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psychology
noun[U]
uk/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/
the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their ...
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(Definition offolkandpsychologyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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From simulation tofolkpsychology: the case for development.
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Withinfolkpsychology, one cannot infer preferences from choices alone, because choices depend on both belief and preference.
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Although it is defined in terms of choice, preference* may nevertheless correspond to a notion that is implicit infolkpsychology.
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We believe that this highly specified definition serves bothfolkpsychologyand cognitive neuroscience equally well.
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Given that the belief-holders are ordinary people, they cannot plausibly be assumed to employ anything other than the conceptual apparatus offolkpsychologyand ontology.
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But whatfolkpsychologyleaves out is irrationality of the first type.
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It conjures up hated notions of subjectivity, teleology, and wishy-washyfolkpsychology.
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The revelation theorem really is a theorem, and choices do not reveal preferences (as preferences are understood infolkpsychology).
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This is all the more important becausefolkpsychologydoes what it can to blur this distinction.
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There is plenty of evidence that people with autism spectrum conditions have degrees of difficulty in mind reading, orfolkpsychology.
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But a philosophical account should surely do more than simply reflect conflations embedded infolkpsychology.
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In addition,folkpsychologygenerally regards empathy as a phenomenon reserved for humans.
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Since preference orderings can be represented by utility functions,folkpsychologyturns into a mathematical theory of utility maximization.
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And this is an enterprise, so the explanation would go, that transcends entirely the regime described infolkpsychologyand rational choice theory.
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And how do children learn this "folkpsychology" way of talking and functioning in the world?
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The formal disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, for instance, are an abstraction offolkpsychology.
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In this view, belief talk and, by extension,folkpsychologytalk in general cannot be learned as a naming game or as a mere internalization of social practices.
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