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Single Idea 3463
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds
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Full Idea
Except when doing philosophy there is no "problem" of other minds, because we do not hold a "hypothesis" or "belief" or "supposition" that other people are conscious.
Gist of Idea
We don't have a "theory" that other people have minds
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 3.IV)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.77
A Reaction
Our commitment to other minds is so deep-ingrained that it is a candidate for one of Hume's 'natural beliefs', or even (a step further) for an innate idea. Babies have an innate recognition of faces, so why can't an expectation of a mind be hard-wired?
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[how we might know of other minds]:
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We discovers others as well as ourselves in the Cogito
[Sartre on Descartes]
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12551
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We are satisfied that other men have minds, from their words and actions
[Locke]
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3948
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Experience tells me that other minds exist independently from my own
[Berkeley]
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6736
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I know other minds by ideas which are referred by me to other agents, as their effects
[Berkeley]
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21228
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Husserl's monads (egos) communicate, through acts of empathy.
[Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
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22221
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We know another's mind via bodily expression, while also knowing it is inaccessible
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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6416
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Other minds seem to exist, because their testimony supports realism about the world
[Russell, by Grayling]
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5364
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It is hard not to believe that speaking humans are expressing thoughts, just as we do ourselves
[Russell]
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22222
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Dasein finds itself already amongst others
[Heidegger, by Caputo]
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8136
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If we work and play with other people, they are bound to be 'Dasein', intelligent agents
[Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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19273
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I don't have the opinion that people have minds; I just treat them as such
[Wittgenstein]
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5328
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Originally I combined a mentalistic view of introspection with a behaviouristic view of other minds
[Ayer]
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5330
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Physicalism undercuts the other mind problem, by equating experience with 'public' brain events
[Ayer]
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2613
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The theory of other minds has no rival
[Ayer]
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5167
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The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic
[Ayer]
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5178
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A conscious object is by definition one that behaves in a certain way, so behaviour proves consciousness
[Ayer]
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10346
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Knowing other minds rests on knowing both one's own mind and the external world
[Davidson, by Dummett]
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3463
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We don't have a "theory" that other people have minds
[Searle]
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Young children can see that other individuals sometimes have false beliefs
[Papineau]
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7874
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Do we understand other minds by simulation-theory, or by theory-theory?
[Papineau]
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24005
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We know other's emotions by explanation, contagion, empathy, imagination, or sympathy
[Goldie]
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24006
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Empathy and imagining don't ensure sympathy, and sympathy doesn't need them
[Goldie]
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