LEADER 03233nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910459433403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-87325-3 010 $a9786612873256 010 $a1-4411-1691-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000055075 035 $a(EBL)601995 035 $a(OCoLC)676697129 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12429248 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113004 035 $a(PQKB)10132694 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415465 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415465 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410712 035 $a(PQKB)10922674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL601995 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287325 035 $a(OCoLC)893335218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000055075 100 $a20081103d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDavid Hume and the problem of other minds$b[electronic resource] /$fAnik Waldow 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum studies in British philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-2343-1 311 $a0-8264-3304-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [172]-201) and index. 327 $aOther 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. 330 $aThe problem of other minds has widely been considered as a special problem within the debate about scepticism. If one cannot be sure that there is a world existing independent ly of one's mind, how can we be sure that there are minds - minds which we cannot even experience the way we experience material objects?. This book shows, through a detailed examination of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature , that these concerns are unfounded. By focusing on Hume's discussion of sympathy - the ability to connect with the mental contents of other persons - Anik Waldow demonstrates that belief in oth 410 0$aContinuum studies in British philosophy. 606 $aOther minds (Theory of knowledge) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOther minds (Theory of knowledge) 676 $a121/.2 700 $aWaldow$b Anik$0953900 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459433403321 996 $aDavid Hume and the problem of other minds$92157348 997 $aUNINA