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David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy) - Hardcover

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Waldow, Anik

 
9780826433046: David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0826433049 ISBN 13: 9780826433046
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2009

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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 other minds can be justified by the same means as belief in material objects. The book thus not only provides the first large-scale treatment of the function of the belief in other minds within the Treatise, thereby adding a new dimension to Hume's realism, but also serves as an invaluable guide to the complexity of the problem of other minds and its various responses in contemporary debate.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826433049
ISBN 13 
9780826433046
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Anzahl der Seiten
218
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