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Autore |
Waldow Anik |
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Titolo |
David Hume and the problem of other minds [[electronic resource] /] / Anik Waldow |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-87325-3 |
9786612873256 |
1-4411-1691-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum studies in British philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Other minds (Theory of knowledge) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- Intuition 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 material objects?. This book shows, through a detailed examination of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature , that these concerns are unfounded. By focusing on Hume's discussion of sympathy - the ability to connect with the mental contents of other persons - Anik Waldow demonstrates that belief in oth |
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