In the 1980s, when Fodor’s Granny was being appalled by relativism in Harvard and graffiti in subway stations, philosophers were appealing to cognitive science to settle questions about the semantics of psychological state ascriptions.1 The truth-aptness of our folk psychological discourse, such as our ascriptions of beliefs and desires, was widely held to rest on the scientific posits of computational psychology.

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为什么我不是文字主义者

在 1980 年代，当福多的奶奶被哈佛的相对主义和地铁站的涂鸦震惊时，哲学家们求助于认知科学来解决心理状态归因的语义问题。 1 我们民间心理学话语的真实性，例如我们对信仰和欲望的归因，被广泛认为是基于计算心理学的科学假设。