Folk psychology as collective imagination. A commentary on Adam Toon’s Mind as Metaphor
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In Mind as Metaphor, Adam Toon embarks in an anti-Cartesian project that rejects the assumption that folk psychology is an attempt at explaining the inner machinery of the mind. He defends, instead, a version of mental fictionalism that arises from pretense. In what follows, I argue that we can articulate this proposal in terms of collective imagination understood as a shared or collective practice that can be sedimented in habits, behaviors and various elements of our material environment. The upshot of this articulation is that it helps us understand how various elements of Toon’s proposal hang together. Additionally, it allows us to explore some implications related to the heterogeneity of folk psychology and its mysterious success.
Source: Philosophical Psychology
Author: M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez
Institution: Tilburg University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4414347272