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Other Minds

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  • © 1995

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  1. Alec Hyslop

    1. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 246)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 1-3

  3. What Is The Problem?

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 5-14

  4. Who Has the Problem of Other Minds?

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 15-27

  5. Other Minds and Scientific Inference

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 29-39

  6. The Analogical Inference to Other Minds

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 41-70

  7. Criteria and Other Minds

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 71-91

  8. The “Old” Private Language Argument and Other Minds

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 93-103

  9. The “New” Private Language Argument: Kripstein’s New Form of Scepticism

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 105-120

  10. “Wittgenstein’s” “Attitudinal Approach” to Other Minds

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 121-130

  11. Strawson on Other Minds

    • Alec Hyslop
    Pages 131-139

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 141-168
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About this book

This book has been a long time in the making. Other issues have taken me away from it from time to extended time. But I kept coming back to the problem of other minds. It has remained a great issue, it is much contested still, and it is, after all, elose to us all. I like believing that the time taken has deepened my understanding of the problem and how it is to be handled. Other people, some by disagreeing vehemently, have helped greatly. I mention in particular, Brian Ellis, Robert Fox, Graeme Marshali, Tim Oakley, Ray Pinkerton and Robert Young. Robert Pargetter argued with me, and kept insisting that I write this book. John Bigelow, Michael Bradley, Keith Campbell, Frank Jackson, and William Lycan assisted by reading an earlier version and providing valued comments. Frank Jackson has been specially helpful, not just on this topic. He can be blamed for initially causing me to take the analogical inference seriously. Tbe La Trobe Philosophy Department has been a good place to do philosophy. I am grateful to Suzanne Hayster, Sandra Paul, and Betty Pritchard for struggling at various times with various recalcitrant manuscripts. Most particularly I thank Gai Larkin. She has seen the project through, with considerably more than efficiency.

Authors and Affiliations

  • La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Alec Hyslop

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Other Minds

  • Authors: Alec Hyslop

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8510-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3245-9Published: 31 January 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4497-6Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8510-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 168

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology

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