TY - JOUR AU - Mölder, Bruno PY - 2018/11/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mind Re-ascribed JF - Studia Philosophica Estonica JA - SPE VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/14490 SP - 55-104 AB - <p>This paper is a reply to commentaries on <em>Mind Ascribed</em>. My response is organised into three parts. In the first part I describe the relationship between folk psychology and the scientific study of the mind. The second part replies to objections to the central tenets and presuppositions of the ascription theory. I clarify the distinction between the nature and the possession of mental states and the notion of a pleonastic entity. I explain why the ascription theory is a version of interpretivism, and not a species of instrumentalism or fictionalism. I also argue that canonical ascription should not be spelled out in terms of the ideal interpreter. The third part deals with comments on miscellaneous topics such as normativity, self-knowledge, the necessity of the brain and the proper understanding of intentional patterns.</p> ER -