Abstract
I argue for a cognitive architecture in which folk psychology is supported by an interface of a ToM module and the language faculty, the latter providing the former with interpreted LF structures which form the content representations of ToM states. I show that LF structures satisfy a range of key features asked of contents. I confront this account of ToM with eliminativism and diagnose and combat the thought that "success" and innateness are inconsistent with the falsity of folk psychology. I show that, while my ensemble account of ToM and language refutes the culturalist presuppositions that tend to underlie eliminativist arguments, the falsity of folk psychology is consistent with the account.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 465-90 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Philosophical Psychology |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |