Other Minds
Beginning of paper
Can I know what another person is thinking or feeling? If so, how?
The problem of is a true philosophical enigma. It is apt to
strike children with no philosophical education whatsoever, yet remains
intractable to many academics. Broadly speaking, the problem can be
divided into three questions. F ....
Middle of paper
.... ever since
Descartes has tended to be defined by scepticism: either it aims to
produce sceptical theories or it aims to refute them. And sceptics tend
towards extremity in their doubts. It must be stated here and now that
there are not, and never can be, any theories that prove demonstratively
that other minds exist, or that I know others’ mental states. This is not
what should be aimed at in attempting to solve the problem. As Austin puts
it "To suppose that the question ‘How do I kn ....
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