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  • Ossian’s Folk Psychology

    Author(s):
    John Savarese (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    LLC English Romantic, LLC Late-18th-Century English, LLC Scottish, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Cognitive science--Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Poetry, Romanticism, Scottish literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Cognitive theory
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/t8sk-fb13
    Abstract:
    When James Macpherson turned to the popular poetry of ancient Scotland, he found in it what philosophers now call folk psychology: a commonsense theory about how minds work. Yet because his poems were largely forgeries, Macpherson winds up importing more recent physiology into his portrayal of ancient, pagan materialism. As a result, the poems’ vernacular packaging ultimately delivers a philosophy closer to more counterintuitive models of mindedness: primitive animism, radical materialism, and innate faculties of mind recognition. In ways that remain relevant today, the Ossianic project seeks a materialism that might situate literary artifacts within a broader, interdisciplinary terrain.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1353/elh.2013.0024
    Publisher:
    Project Muse
    Pub. Date:
    2013-9-8
    Journal:
    ELH
    Volume:
    80
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    715 - 745
    ISSN:
    1080-6547
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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