Abstract
Abstract This chapter begins by considering the nature of our ordinary talk about the mind (or folk psychology). It also considers the most common interpretation of folk psychology, namely that it should be understood as a theory of the mind as an inner realm (a view the author calls Cartesianism). This suggests two alternatives: either our folk theory is true or it is false. The first option is taken by the representational theory of mind (or representationalism) and the second by eliminativism. After briefly considering each of these positions, this chapter introduces mental fictionalism and show how it offers a new way of understanding folk psychology in terms of metaphor and pretence.
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