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The Narrative Practice Hypothesis: Origins and Applications of Folk Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2007

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Psychologically normal adult humans make sense of intentional actions by trying to decide for which reason they were performed. This is a datum that requires our understanding. Although there have been interesting recent debates about how we should understand ‘reasons’, I will follow a long tradition and assume that, at a bare minimum, to act for a reason involves having appropriately interrelated beliefs and desires.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2007

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