Socializing minds : intersubjectivity in early modern philosophy /
"How do minds depend on other minds? One answer to this question is that they depend on another in the way they are; that is, their being and their states are explained in virtue of their relation to other minds. What does this mean? For a first approximation, you might imagine that the mental...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "How do minds depend on other minds? One answer to this question is that they depend on another in the way they are; that is, their being and their states are explained in virtue of their relation to other minds. What does this mean? For a first approximation, you might imagine that the mental states in your mind are incomplete. A decision you make or a conclusion you draw, for instance, might not arise from your own thoughts but from other people's minds. In that sense, one might assume that one's mind is only partly one's own mind. Since Spinoza opts for such an explanation, I will call his approach a metaphysical model of intersubjectivity"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197613160 9780197613177 0197613179 9780197613153 0197613152 9780197613160 |