The video outlines challenges to the view that "folk psychology", the attribution of propositional attitudes such as beliefs and desires to predict and explain behaviour, plays a central role in social coordination. I am drawing primarily on the work of Jose Luis Bermudez and Matthew Ratcliffe.

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0:00 - Folk psychology
Social cognition without folk psychology
6:48 - Heuristic strategies
15:42 - Social scripts
What's wrong with folk psychology?
22:43 - Computational complexity
26:38 - Holism
29:45 - Meta-representation
33:48 - Attitudes beyond folk psychology
39:10 - Vacuity
Conclusion
43:00 - Consequences

-- Bermudez, Jose Luis. (2004). Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction. New York: Routledge.
-- Bermudez, Jose Luis. (2005). "Arguing for eliminativism." In Paul Churchland: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, ed. Brian L. Keeley: 32:65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-- Morton, Adam. (1996). "Folk psychology is not a predictive device." Mind 105(417): 119-137.
-- Ratcliffe, Matthew. (2007). Rethinking Commonsense Psychology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.