Folk psychological narratives : the sociocultural basis of understanding reasons
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of narratives. --From publisher's description
xxiv, 343 pages ; 24 cm
9780262083676, 0262083671
85783234
The limits of spectatorial folk psychology
The narrative practice hypothesis
Intentional attitudes
Imaginative extensions
Linguistic transformations
Unprincipled embodied engagements
Getting a grip on the attitudes
No native mentalizers
No child's science
Three motivations and a challenge
First communions
Ultimate origins and creation myths
"A Bradford book."
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