The development of a mentalistic explanatory procedure: Chapter 4. Methodological Dualism (MD) and the Multi-Explanation Framework (MEF) (I)

Chapter 4
Methodological Dualism (MD) and the Multi-Explanation Framework (MEF) (I)

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4.1Rationale for Developing Methodological Dualism (MD) and the Multi-Explanation Framework (MEF)
4.2Methodological Dualism (MD): Some clarifications
- 4.2.1Mechanistic and mentalistic explanations
- 4.2.2Explanatory C^Ψ
- 4.2.3Conscious MSs
- 4.2.4The value of the MD–MEF approach
- 4.2.5The limits of the MD–MEF approach
4.3Methodological Dualism (MD): The development of a mentalistic model of explanation
- 4.3.1A proposed mentalistic model, procedure for explanations
- 4.3.2[Desire–Belief] and folk psychology
- 4.3.3The (Desire–Belief) conditional viewed as a social scientific law
4.4[Motivation–Belief] satisfies most of the requirements for scientific explanation
- 4.4.1Methodological requirements for a model of scientific explanation
- 4.4.2Folk psychology and the (Desire–Belief) conditional
  - 4.4.2.1Empirical irrelevance
  - 4.4.2.2Scientific laws
- 4.4.3Objectivity, repeatability, and publicity