Chomsky on "theory" from Barsamian interview, was "no social science theories"

[ravi]

talking about commonsense notions and theory, paul churchland, in
defense of his eliminative materialism, goes to great length to
[attempt to] establish that commonsense/folk-psychology is indeed
a theory. a good summary of his argument can be found at:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-theory/
http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/baker

of course this is a bit different from the current discussion of
sociological theories that go beyond a "theory of mind".

this is a good paper if you can get your hands on it:

Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

	Journal of Philosophy, 78, no. 2, February 198l

	--ravi