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Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, p. 615
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157120
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COGNITIVE SCIENCE:
Rethinking Folk Psychology

Erik Myin

Folk Psychological Narratives
The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons
by Daniel D. Hutto
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 367 pp. $38, £24.95. ISBN 9780262083676.
The author argues for a "narrative practice" alternative to "theory of mind" explanations of the human capacity for understanding other persons in terms of their beliefs and desires.
The reviewer is at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, B2000 Antwerpen, Belgium. E-mail: erik.myin{at}ua.ac.be

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