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| Other minds, philosophy: in relation to the mind of other persons, it is about the extent to which experiences and thoughts of others are recognizable to us. See also Privileged access, First person, Consciousness, Perception, Qualia, Perspective, Objectivity, Subjectivity, Inverted spectra, Theory of Mind._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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David Chalmers on Other Minds - Dictionary of Arguments
I 74 Foreign psychic/other minds/epistemology/Chalmers: There is obviously an epistemological problem with regard to the foreign psychic because it is logically compatible with all the evidence we have that beings around us have a consciousness and also logically compatible with these evidence that they have none. >Zombies, >Consciousness, >Consciousness/Chalmers, >Knowledge, >Evidence, >Behavior. A corresponding problem does not exist in other fields, e.g. other biological systems or other economic systems. They do not exist in relation to our own consciousness. >First person, >Incorrigibility, >Experience, >Self-awareness, >Self-knowledge._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Cha I D. Chalmers The Conscious Mind Oxford New York 1996 Cha II D. Chalmers Constructing the World Oxford 2014 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29