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The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 2 facts
claimOjalehto and her collaborators argue that animism should be viewed through the lens of 'folk-communication'—a framework conceptualizing agency as a capacity to relate with others and the environment—rather than 'folk-psychology', which involves the attribution of mental states to non-human entities.
claimUS college students attribute agency based on presumed mental states, a framework labeled 'folk-psychology' by researchers Bethany Ojalehto, Douglas Medin, and Rebecca Seligman.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Feb 17, 2026 2 facts
perspectiveAn analytic functionalist might argue that AI systems can be conscious if they adhere closely to the platitudes of everyday folk psychology, such as forming goals, beliefs, and aspirations, even if the underlying processes of brains and AI systems differ.
claimAnalytic functionalism defines mental states based on everyday folk psychology, characterizing them through common understanding of how people form, hold, and lose mental states like beliefs.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimEliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the philosophical view that mental states used in folk psychology do not correspond to real brain mechanisms upon scientific examination.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 1 fact
claimJack Lyons examined the relationship between testimony, induction, and folk psychology in a 1997 article in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimCharles Darwin's evolutionary psychological publications influenced the physiological and folk psychologies of Wilhelm Wundt.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
perspectiveMaterialists dismiss post-materialist quantum theorizing and paranormal phenomena as pseudoscience or folk psychology, or argue that phenomena like near-death experiences are products of brain neurophysiology that are not yet fully understood.
Research - Keith Frankish keithfrankish.com 1 fact
claimKeith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which possess different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimThe basic idea of panpsychism may have originated from a process of explanatory extension based on folk psychology.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveSome theorists deny the existence of beliefs, arguing that the concept is borrowed from folk psychology and oversimplifies complex psychological or neurological processes.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 1 fact
referenceOkasha (2018) notes that agency in the fields of folk psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology requires a unity of purpose or, at minimum, consistency among goals.
Non-Reductive Physicalism - Theories of Consciousness theoriesofconsciousness.com 1 fact
claimEliminative Materialism posits that folk psychology will be replaced by neuroscience, offering a radically naturalistic approach but denying obvious facts of experience.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimThe basic idea of panpsychism may have originated from an explanatory extension of 'folk psychology,' which early humans used to interpret a complex world.