David Hume and the problem of other minds [[electronic resource] /] / Anik Waldow
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Waldow Anik
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| Titolo: |
David Hume and the problem of other minds [[electronic resource] /] / Anik Waldow
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Other minds (Theory of knowledge) |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-201) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | David Hume and the problem of other minds |
| ISBN: | 1-282-87325-3 |
| 9786612873256 | |
| 1-4411-1691-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785229903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Continuum studies in British philosophy.