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(1999) Freud's philosophy of the unconscious, Dordrecht, Springer.
The contemporary debate about the status of folk-psychology is a continuation and extension of criticisms of introspection offered by philosophers and psychologists earlier in the century. These efforts grew out of the failure of introspectionism to provide a basis for a scientific psychology. Boring (1933) and others advanced the view that far from yielding a pure and incorrigible account of mental states introspection delivers an "interpreted" (theorized) picture.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1611-6_10
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Smith, D.L. (1999). Animism, realism and anti-realism, in Freud's philosophy of the unconscious, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 102-111.
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