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Folk Psychology Under Stress: Comments on Susan Hurley's ‘Animal Action in the Space of Reasons’
Author(s) -
GodfreySmith Peter
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00225
Subject(s) - folk psychology , comparative psychology , action (physics) , psychology , space (punctuation) , cognition , epistemology , animal cognition , cognitive science , social psychology , cognitive psychology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
My commentary on Hurley is concerned with foundational issues. Hurley's investigation of animal cognition is cast within a particular framework—basically, a philosophically refined version of folk psychology. Her discussion has a complicated relationship to unresolved debates about the nature and status of folk psychology, especially debates about the extent to which folk psychological categories are aimed at picking out features of the causal organization of the mind.