Lecture 2: The Sceptical Problem of Other Minds

This lecture focuses on the two standard responses to the problem of other minds: the argument from analogy and the inference to the best explanation.

Obligatory Reading: Tye, M. 2016. Tense Bees and Shell-shocked Crabs (OUP), chapter 4.
Additional Reading: Pargetter, R. 1984. The scientific inference to other minds, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 62: 158-63.

The course is organized by the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies / https://hardproblem.ru/ and Philosophy Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University / http://philos.msu.ru/

Lecturer: Prof. Timothy Bayne (Professor of Philosophy, Monash University (Melbourne)) / https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/timothy-bayne

Music: D-pulse, album “Dancing Qualia” / https://music.apple.com/ru/album/dancing-qualia/1478739578?l=en

Timeline:

0:07 - Recap of the previous lecture
1:06 - Hard times for the skeptical problem of other minds
03:00 - Understanding the skeptical problem of other minds
05:59 - Expectations from the solution of the skeptical problem
09:14 - How to approach the skeptical problem
12:16 - 1st response. The argument from analogy
22:40 - Correlation between behavioral responses and experiences
28:15 - 2nd response. The inference to the best explanation
30:38 - Michael Tye’s presentation of Inferences to the Best Explanation (IBE) approach
34:24 - Contrast between propositional attitudes and conscious states
42:25 - Objection from explanatory impotence, and its criticism

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