?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Two+Contrasts%3A+Folk+Craft+versus+Folk+Science+and+Belief+versus+Opinion&rft.creator=Dennett%2C+Daniel+C&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Let+us+begin+with+what+all+of+us+here+agree+on%3A+folk+psychology+is+not+immune+to+revision.+It+has+a+certain+vulnerability+in+principle.+Any+particular+part+of+it+might+be+overthrown+and+replaced+by+some+other+doctrine.+Yet+we+disagree+about+how+likely+it+is+that+that+vulnerability+in+principle+will+turn+into+the+actual+demise+of+large+portions--or+all--of+folk+psychology.+I+am+of+the+view+that+folk+psychology+is+here+for+the+long+haul%2C+and+for+some+very+good+reasons.+But+I+am+not+going+to+concentrate+on+that+in+my+remarks.+What+nobody+has+bothered+saying+here+yet%2C+but+is+probably+worth+saying%2C+is+that+for+all+of+its+blemishes%2C+warts+and+perplexities%2C+folk+psychology+is+an+extraordinarily+powerful+source+of+prediction.+It+is+not+just+prodigiously+powerful+but+remarkably+easy+for+human+beings+to+use.+We+are+virtuoso+exploiters+of+not+so+much+a+theory+as+a+craft.+That+is%2C+we+might+better+call+it+a+folk+craft+rather+than+a+folk+theory.+The+theory+of+folk+psychology+is+the+ideology+about+the+craft%2C+and+there+is+lots+of+room%2C+as+anthropologists+will+remind+us%2C+for+false+ideology.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Greenwood%2C+J.+D.&rft.date=1991&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F261%2F1%2Ftwocontr.htm&rft.identifier=++Dennett%2C+Daniel+C++(1991)+Two+Contrasts%3A+Folk+Craft+versus+Folk+Science+and+Belief+versus+Opinion.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F261%2F