Philosophy A-Level
Knowledge of other minds
What Knowledge of other minds means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Knowledge of other minds
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Third-person knowledge of others' mental states that is indirect and inferential, based on behaviour, testimony and context, and can be wrong.
Topics that use Knowledge of other minds
- Physicalist theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Eliminative materialism
- First-person certainty of mental states
- Folk psychology
- Hempel's logical analysis of psychology
- Implications for physicalist theories
- Inference to the best explanation
- Knowledge by direct access versus inference
- Ordinary-language analysis of mental talk
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