Skip to main content

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
Cancel
×
×
Home
  • Home
Article
  • Cited by 1
  • Cited by
    Crossref Citations
    Crossref logo
    This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef.
    KOK, KASPER and CIENKI, ALAN 2017. Taking simulation semantics out of the laboratory: towards an interactive and multimodal reappraisal of embodied language comprehension. Language and Cognition, Vol. 9, Issue. 01, p. 1.
    ×
  • Get access
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian

How to understand beliefs

  • Alison Gopnik (a1)
  • In response to commentaries on:
Abstract

In this response various possible objections to the critique of first-person-authority in Gopnik (1993), are considered. The heart of all three objections is that “beliefs” and other notions of commonsense psychology should not be construed as attempts to describe the functional character of our minds. Rather, they are 1) an evolutionarily determined technique for dealing with our conspecifics (Bogdan) or 2) the result of interpretation (Van Brakel) or 3) self-constitutive entities which exist only when we have the concept of their existence (Greve and Buchner). While the word belief might be construed in all these ways, they do not correspond either to the construals of our commonsense psychology or of a scientific psychology.

Copyright
COPYRIGHT: © Cambridge University Press 1995
References
Hide All
Bogdan, R. (1993) The architectural nonchalance of commonsense psychology. Mind and Language 8: 189–205. [rAIG]
Butterworth, G. (1993) Towards an ecology of mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 31–32. [JvB]
Campbell, R. L. & Bickhard, M. H. (1993) Knowing levels and the child's understanding of mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 33–34. [JvB]
Chater, N. (1993) Categorization theories and folk psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 37. [RJB]
Davidson, D. (1984) First person authority, Dialectica 38: 101–11. [JvB, rAIG]
Fodor, J. (1987) Psychosemantics. MIT Press. [rAIG, JP]
Goldman, A. (1993a) The psychology of folk psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 15–28. [RJB, JvB, rAIG, JP]
Goldman, A.(1993b) Consciousness, folk psychology and cognitive science. Consciousness and Cognition 2: 364–82. [JP]
Goldman, A. (1993c) Philosophical applications of cognitive science. Westview Press. [JP]
Goldman, A.(1993d) Competing accounts of belief-task performance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 43–44. [JvB]
Gopnik, A. (1993a) How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionaltty. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 1–14. [RJB, JvB, rAG, WG]
Gopnik, A. (1993b) Theories and illusions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 90–100. [JvB]
Gopnik, A.(1993c) Psychopsychology. Consciousness and Cognition 2: 264–80. [rAG]
Gopnik, A. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1994) Minds, bodies and persons: Young children's understanding of the self and others as reflected in imitation and “theory of mind” research. In: Self-awareness in animals and humans, ed. Parker, S. & Mitchell, R.. New York: Cambridge University Press. [rAG]
Gurd, J. M. & Marshall, J. C. (1993) Know my own mind? I should be so lucky! Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 47–48. [JvB]
Harris, P. L. (1993) First-person current. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 48–49. [JvB]
Keysar, B. (1993) Common sense and adult theory of communication. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 54. [JvB]
Kobes, B. W. (1993) Self-attributions help constitute mental types. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 54–56. [RJB]
Lakatos, I. (1970) Criticism and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In: Criticism and the growth of knowledge, ed. Lakatos, I. and Musgrave, A.. [WG]
Ludlow, P. & Martin, N. (1993) The fallibility of first-person knowledge of intentionality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 60. [JvB]
Meltzoff, A. N. & Gopnik, A. (1993) The role of imitation in understanding persons and developing theories of mind. In: Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism, ed. Baron-Cohen, S. & Tager-Flusberg, H.. Oxford University Press. [rAG]
Moore, C. & Barresi, J. (1993) Knowledge of the psychological states of self and others is not only theory-laden but also data-driven. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 61–62. [JvB]
Morton, A. (1993) Heuristics and counterfactual self-knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 63–64. [JvB]
Nichols, S. (1993) Developmental evidence and introspection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 64–65. [JvB]
Olson, D. R. & Astington, J. W. (1993) The role of concepts in perception and inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 65–66. [JvB]
Pietroski, P. M. (1993) First-person authority and beliefs as representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 67–69. [JvB]
Pillow, B. H. (1993) Limitations on first-person experience: Implications of the “extent.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 69. [JvB]
Plaut, D. C. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1993) Representational development and theory-of-mind computations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 70–71. [JvB]
Rey, G. (1993) Why presume analyses are on-line? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 74–75. [RJB]
Rips, L. J. (1993) Qualities and relations in folk theories of mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 75–76. [RJB]
Root, M. (1986) Davidson and social science. In: Truth and interpretation, ed. LePore, E.. , Blackwell. [JvB]
Saunders, B. A. C. (1993) Disenshrining the Cartesian self. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 77–78. [JvB]
Siegal, M. (1993) Knowing children's minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 79–80. [JvB]
Stegmüller, W. (1979) The structuralist view of theories. Berlin: Springer. [WG]
Strawson, P. (1959) Individuals. London: Methuen. [JvB]
Suppe, F. (1974) The structure of scientific theories. University of Illinois Press. [WG]
Swift, J. (1726) Gulliver's travels. 1965 reprint. Blackwell. [JvB]
Tomasello, M. (1993) Where's the person? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 84–85. [JvB]
Van Brakel, J. (1994) Emotions as the fabric of forms of life: A cross-cultural perspective. In: Social perspectives on emotion, vol 2, ed. Wentworth, W. M. & Ryan, J.. JAI Press. [JvB]
Van Brakel, J. & Geurts, J. P. M. (1988) Pragmatic identity ot meaning and metaphor. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2: 205–26. [JvB]
Wittgenstein, L. (1980) Remarks on the philosophy of psychology, vol. 2, ed. von Wright, G. H. & Nyman, H.. The University of Chicago Press. [JvB]
Zaitchik, D. & Samet, J. (1993) Intentionality, theoreticity and innateness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 87–88. [JvB]
Zelazo, P. D. & Frye, D. (1993) The psychologist's fallacy (and the philosopher's omission). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 8990. [JvB]
Recommend this journal

Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • ISSN: 0140-525X
  • EISSN: 1469-1825
  • URL: /core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences
Please enter your name
Please enter a valid email address
Who would you like to send this to? *

CAPTCHA *

Skip to the audio challenge
×

Metrics

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 12 *
Loading metrics...

Abstract views

Total abstract views: 91 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between September 2016 - 13th June 2018. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Cancel
Confirm
×