Thematizing Common Sense (Presentation of the Dossier ‘Science and Common Sense’)

Abstract

The epistemological issue of common sense within the field of philosophy of sciences is relatively recent. It acquired momentum with the emergence of the new sub-field known as the philosophy of mind to a large degree an outcome of the emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline. “Folk psychology”, understood as a modality of common sense, is a central topic shared by “social psychology”, “development psychology”, “philosophy of mind”, “epistemology” eventually coordinated within the interdisciplinary field of “cognitive sciences”.