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David Hume and the problem of other minds /

The problem of other minds has widely been considered as a special problem within the debate about scepticism. If one cannot be sure that there is a world existing independent ly of one's mind, how can we be sure that there are minds - minds which we cannot even experience the way we experience...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waldow, Anik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Colección:Continuum studies in British philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature
  • A modern approach
  • Scepticism versus naturalism: The vulgar and the philosopher; Relative ideas; Concepts of the real; Intuitions and common sense; Epistemic responsibility; Degeneration of reason; Just philosophy
  • Conceiving minds: Abstraction; Argument from analogy; Sympathy; Limitations; Generality; Hume's concept of mind
  • The world and the other: Habit and intersubjective responsiveness; Belief and education; Mental facts; Signs of mind and world; The belief-grounding function of sympathy; Corrigibility of belief; Cognitive architecture.