Is the Problem of Other Minds Present in the Philosophy of R. Descartes?
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Descartes, argument from analogy, automaton, man.
Abstract
The aim of the essay is to analyze the passages of the Cartesian oeuvre which could be related to the problem of other minds. After a brief presentation of the problem and what is known as the argument from analogy, we show that what we will call the automata passage is not an acknowledgement of the problem. Next, we raise a way of generating the problem, to show how it could be approached from Descartes’s works.Downloads
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2017-12-11
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Castro M. L. G. (2017). Is the Problem of Other Minds Present in the Philosophy of R. Descartes?. Ingenium. Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento Moderno y Metodología en Historia de las Ideas, 11, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.5209/INGE.58301
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