Abstract
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Folk Psychology is dead. Long live Folk Psychology!! This could be the motto of
many of the papers in this volume. I too endorse the need to reform the standard
assumptions about the function, scope and basis of our capacity to understand
others in terms of what might be called - accurately, if rather cumbersomely -
propositional-attitude belief-desire psychology. Yet, I stop short of proposing a
successor. I take it to be a datum that certain populations of psychologically normal,
adult humans do, as a matter of fact, make sense of intentional action by appeal
to reasons. In speaking of 'reasons' I mean precisely what philosophers have long
understood to be at the heart of discrete episodes of means-end practical reasoning -
processes that result in intentions to act.