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Recurring Dilemmas on Other Minds
This chapter critiques the notion of identity, a philosophical reaction in the Quinean sense that vindicates another significant hypothesis, which is...
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Natalie Duddington and perceptual knowledge of other minds
This paper concerns the Russian émigrée translator and philosopher Natalie Duddington (1886–1972). By establishing Duddington’s dependence on...
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Knowing Other Minds: A Scorekee** Model
The prepositional ‘in’ and possessive pronouns, e.g., ‘my’ and ‘mine,’ in the context of attributions of mental states, such as “in my mind” or “in...
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The Sceptic, The Outsider, and Other Minds
The usual way with scepticism is to formulate a problem in connection with the external world and then apply this to other minds. Drawing on work by...
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Merging Minds: The Conceptual and Ethical Impacts of Emerging Technologies for Collective Minds
A growing number of technologies are currently being developed to improve and distribute thinking and decision-making. Rapid progress in...
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Comparative Perspectives on Solutions for the Problem of Other Minds
This chapter aims to establish a dialogue between contemporary research on the problem of other minds and classical Chinese philosophical theories....
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Human Minds and Cultures
This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts—human minds and cultures—and strives for a...
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In What Sense Should We Talk About the Perception of Other Minds?
By means of spontaneous and unconscious imitation, an observer may be able to directly experience the inner states of another person because the...
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The Sense of Someone Appearing There: A Philosophical Investigation into Other Minds, Deceased People, and Animated Persona
We sometimes feel the presence of a person-like something on a non-biological object, such as a memento from a deceased family member or a...
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Human Minds and Cultures: An Introduction
This thematic volume entitled Human Minds and Cultures deciphers different aspects of human minds and cultures that differ in their methodological...
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Natural Minds
A summary of the view of minds as embodied virtual machines, showing how this addresses the metaphysical issues from the first half of the text....
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Physically Embodied Minds
Virtual Machine Functionalism is defended as an account of the relation between the mental and the physical not vulnerable to reductionist arguments....
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Emerging Minds
However we may conceive of the human mind, its defining characteristic is that it is intelligent. In a broad context, it refers to the ability to...
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Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving...
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Overlap** minds and the hedonic calculus
It may soon be possible for neurotechnology to connect two subjects' brains such that they share a single token mental state, such as a feeling of...
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Other minds are neither seen nor inferred
How do we know about other minds on the basis of perception? The two most common answers to this question are that we literally perceive others’...
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Sims and Vulnerability: On the Ethics of Creating Emulated Minds
It might become possible to build artificial minds with the capacity for experience. This raises a plethora of ethical issues, explored, among...
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New Ontological Foundations for Extended Minds: Causal Powers Realism
In this paper, we describe causal powers realism as a conjunction of four claims: causal powers are not reducible to counterfactuals; they are...
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Being in the World: Extended Minds and Extended Bodies
An influential group of authors writing in philosophy of mind defend what has become known as the “extended mind”. The extended mind thesis (EMT)...