Title Folk concept of 'a person': structure and warrant /
Another Title Kasdienis "asmens" konceptas: struktūra ir patikimumas.
Authors Berniūnas, Renatas
DOI 10.15388/Problemos.2012.0.1872
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Is Part of Problemos.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2012, priedas, p. 63-77.. ISSN 1392-1126. eISSN 2424-6158
Keywords [eng] folk concepts ; folk psychology ; a person ; experimental philosophy ; cognitive science
Abstract [eng] The main goal of this paper is to discuss the folk concept of a person: The secondary goal is to present a new field of experimental philosophy by using its theoretical framework to study folk concepts. The major part of this paper is devoted to descriptive issues of the concept of a person: in one section loutline the very notion of folk conceptions and then discuss the folk concept of a person; in another section I present a cognitive scientific view of persons. Finally, I outline a tentative answer to the substantive question about the reliability of folk concepts. It is argued that this kind of empirical conceptual analysis (af 'a person' or any other concept) can be of use within the standard methodological tool-kit of analytic philosophy, it can con tribute to conceptual cJarity in cognitive science, and possibly shed some light on narmative issues.
Published Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2012
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