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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.
Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
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To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare [PDF]

, 2013
Wittgenstein's lack of sympathy for Shakespeare's works has been well noted by George Steiner and Harold Bloom among others. Wittgenstein writes in 1950, for instance: "It seems to me as though his pieces are, as it were, enormous sketches, not paintings;
Day, William
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Autoconhecimento, normatividade e responsabilidade na filosofia da linguagem ordinária de Stanley Cavell

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 O artigo aborda a relação entre a filosofia da linguagem ordinária de Stanley Cavell – FLO – e a possibilidade de autoconhecimento, através dos usos da linguagem ordinária.
Rafael Fernandes Mendes dos Santos
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Clarifying Conversations: Understanding Cultural Difference in Philosophical Education [PDF]

, 2017
The goal of this essay is to explain how Wittgenstein's philosophy may be helpful for understanding and addressing challenges to cross-cultural communication in educational contexts.
Carroll, Thomas D.
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Stanley Cavell

This profile on Stanley Cavell comprises five sections. The first provides a brief overview of Cavell’s intellectual biography. The second addresses the themes of the ordinary and skepticism, concentrating on Cavell’s engagement with Wittgenstein, Austin, Freud, and Heidegger. The third section is devoted to Cavell’s theoretical reflections on the arts
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Ordinary Language, Conventionalism and a priori Knowledge [PDF]

, 2001
This paper examines popular‘conventionalist’explanations of why philosophers need not back up their claims about how‘we’use our words with empirical studies of actual usage.
Jackman, Henry
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Small Talk and the Cinema: Conversation, Philosophy and the Case of Sullivan's Travels

Film-Philosophy, 2018
This article seeks to bring small talk about cinema – the type of conversation that can begin with the question “Have you seen any good movies lately?” – into the analytical ambit of cinema and media studies.
Cooper Long
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Encountering Cavell

Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, 2019
I first came across Stanley Cavell’s writing in the fall of 1974 in a senior seminar in the philosophy of mind at Middlebury College, co-taught by Stanley Bates and Timothy Gould. We spent most of the term reading Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind and P. F.
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Levd skepticism i Karin Boyes Kallocain

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap
This article examines what Karin Boye's dystopian novel Kallocain (1940) knows about other-minds skepticism, and the conditions for understanding the inner lives of other people.
Ingeborg Löfgren
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Ethics and the activity of philosophy in early Wittgenstein [PDF]

, 2018
Wittgenstein’s early work is well known for its seminal importance to the philosophy of language and logic during the second half of the 20th century and beyond.
Marks, Owen Chandler
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