The Relationship between Introspection and Folk Psychology: An Overview

Name: The Relationship between Introspection and Folk Psychology: An Overview
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2021 - 3

Titolo

The Relationship between Introspection and Folk Psychology: An Overview

Autore

Giuseppe Lo Dico

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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Online da

10-2021

Doi

10.26350/001050_000285

Issn

0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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The epistemic status of introspection remains a controversial topic. Due to its subjective character, introspection is not an easy fit with natural sciences or a physicalistic picture of the mind. In literature, introspection is conceived as dealing only with macro-cognition and not with micro-cognition, the supposed object of study of scientific psychology. This essay discusses the epistemic status of introspection in light of its relationship with folk psychology and spells it out through an analysis of the positions of Wilkes, Alston, Schwitzgebel, and Churchland. Specifically, the essay makes a distinction between folk and scientific psychology and addresses the issue of the incorrigibility/infallibility of introspective judgments. The essay endorses a view according to which introspection should be conceived as a cognitive process the contents of which are provided by folk knowledge. It shows how this view can be appreciated as scientific, provided that a physicalistic image of the mind is rejected.