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States of mind and of science

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From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief.

By Stephen P. Stich. MIT Press: 1984. Pp.266. $22.50, £21.40.

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  1. Reader in Psycholinguistics at University College London. With P.N. Johnson-Laird he is co-author of Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content (Batsford, 1972).

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