Folk Psychological Narratives

Daniel-D-Hutto

Abstract

SF practitioners have a tradition of avoiding the “why” question. Most of us shudder when we hear: “Why did you hit him? Were you angry?”, and regard this as a rather nonsensical interaction – at least in a helping conversation. You can imagine my surprise when I met Dan Hutto, profes- sor of Philosophical Psychology and Wittgenstein scholar and vaguely understood that he was saying something like “putting belief and desire back into our vocabulary”. Hadn’t we been arguing for a long time that understanding “belief” and “desire” as reifications or powerful entities inside a human being makes no sense? Of course, I had to buy the book!

Article