FOLK BIOLOGY AND EXTERNAL DEFINITIONS

Authors
HAMPTON JA
Citation
Ja. Hampton, FOLK BIOLOGY AND EXTERNAL DEFINITIONS, Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(4), 1998, pp. 574-574
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
21
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
574 - 574
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:4<574:FBAED>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Atran's thesis has strong implications for the doctrine of externalism in concepts (Fodor 1994). Beliefs about biological kinds may involve a degree of deference to scientific categories, but these categories a re not truly scientific. They involve instead a folk view of science i tself.