mentalistic

adj

1. Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings) in describing, explaining, or predicting behaviour or other phenomena; employing or pertaining to vocabulary or predicates about such states (often contrasted with behaviorist or purely physicalist approaches).

   “Mentalistic explanations allay curiosity and bring inquiry to a stop.”

   “In this respect, our familiar mentalistic vocabulary (viz. our talk of thoughts, feelings, and expectations) would be similar in important respects to other theoretically embedded vocabularies.”

   “Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.”

   “The findings … show that syntactic information is a more reliable indicator of mentalistic interpretations than even the most cooperative contextual cues.”

2. Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists.