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Folk Psychology Re-Assessed

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-114

  Goldie, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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References (21)

1. See especially Donald Davidson's 'Actions, Reasons, and Causes', together with the other papers in his Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
2. Rosalind Hursthouse has claimed that actions expressive of emotion do not involve 'the ascription of a suitable belief' ('Arational Actions', Journal of Philosophy 88, 1981, pp. 57-68, at pp. 58-59)
3. Michael Stocker has made a similar claim in respect of actions done out of friendship (Valuing Emotions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
4. see Donald Davidson, 'Problems in the explanation of action', in his Problems of Rationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 101-116
5. Michael Smith, 'The Possibility of Philosophy of Action', in J. Bransen ed., Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 17-41, and my The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. 125-129.
6. Davidson, 'Actions, Reasons, and Causes', p. 4
7. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich, Mindreading, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 4.
8. see their Mindreading, pp. 142-148.
9. Nagel, The Possibility of Altruism.
10. For discussion, see my On Personality, pp. 8-10
11. David Lewis, 'Causal Explanation', in his Philosophical Papers Volume II, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 214-240, at p. 221.
12. See, for example, Gilbert Harman, 'Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99, 1999, pp. 315-331,
13. The Nonexistence of Character Traits', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100, 2000, pp. 223-236
14. John Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behaviour, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
15. Jane Heal in 'Replication and functionalism', in M. Davies and T. Stone, eds, Folk Psychology: The Theory of Mind Debate, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, pp. 45-59.
16. J.L. Austin, 'A Plea For Excuses,' reprinted in his Philosophical Papers, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 175-204.
17. Christine Korsgaard discusses related issues in her 'Skepticism About Practical Reasoning', Journal of Philosophy 83, 1986, pp. 5-25.
18. Nichols and Stich, Mindreading, p. 138.
19. I discuss this in relation to planning in 'Imagination and the Distorting Power of Emotion', Journal of Consciousness Studies 12, 2005, pp. 130-142.
20. See, for example, Noel Carroll, 'On the Narrative Connection', in his Beyond Aesthetics, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 118-133
21. and David Velleman, 'Narrative Explanation', Philosophical Review 112, 2003, pp. 1-25.