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Folk biology and external definitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

James A. Hampton
James A. Hampton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City University, London, EC1V 0HB United [email protected]. www.city.ac.uk/psychology
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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 are not truly scientific. They involve instead a folk view of science itself.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 574
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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