FOLK BIOLOGY AND EXTERNAL DEFINITIONS (CORRECTED VERSION OF 126BQ)

Authors
HAMPTON JA
Citation
Ja. Hampton, FOLK BIOLOGY AND EXTERNAL DEFINITIONS (CORRECTED VERSION OF 126BQ), Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(4), 1998, pp. 574
Citations number
4
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
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:4<574:FBAED(>2.0.ZU;2-3
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.