David Hume and the problem of other minds / Anik Waldow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldow, Anik.

Series:

Continuum studies in British philosophy.

Continuum studies in British philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Other minds (Theory of knowledge).

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-201) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-87325-3

9786612873256

1-4411-1691-5

OCLC:

676697129