Other Minds

This book has been a long time in the making. Other issues have taken me away from it from time to extended time. But I kept coming back to the problem of other minds. It has remained a great issue, it is much contested still, and it is, after all, elose to us all. I like believing that the time tak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hyslop, Alec
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What is the problem
  • 2. Who has the problem of other minds?
  • 3. Other minds and scientific inference
  • 4. The analogical inference to other minds
  • 5. Criteria and other minds
  • 6. The “old” private language argument and other minds
  • 7. The “new” private language argument: Kripstein’s new form of scepticism
  • 8. “Wittgenstein’s” “attitudinal approach” to other minds
  • 9. Strawson on other minds
  • Notes
  • References