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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2009.
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| Series: | Continuum studies in British philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.