The Falsity of Folk Theories; Implications for Psychology and Philosophy

INTRODUCTION In Chapters 2-8, we have concentrated on problems for the programme of logicist cognitive science at the implementational, algorithmic, and computational levels. We have focused, in particular, on the problems raised by the defeasible character of everyday inference. In this chapter, we consider some wider implications of the defeasible character of human reasoning for the cognitive sciences and for philosophy.