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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum studies in British philosophyPublication details: London ; Continuum, c2009.Description: viii, 206 p. : 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780826433046
  • 0826433049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121/.2 22
LOC classification:
  • B1498 .W36 2009
Online resources:
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.
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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre B 1498 WAL 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1276 Available MzULM-001276
Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre B 1498 WAL 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1277 Available MzULM-001277

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

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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