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The Lives of Others
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Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
Publication Volume
97
Publication Issue
1
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13872
Abstract
On a Cartesian conception of the mind, I could be a solitary being and still have the same mental states as I currently have. This paper asks how the lives of other people fit into this conception. I investigate the second-person perspective—thinking of others as ‘you’ while engaging in reciprocal communicative interactions with them—and argue that it is neither epistemically nor metaphysically distinctive. I also argue that the Cartesian picture explains why other people are special: because they matter not just for the effect that they have on us.
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Journal article
Date
2023
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Identifiers
10.1093/arisup/akad009