Papers by Anita Avramides
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 2, 2009
It is a serious question both in philosophy and the history of ideas just how our conception of m... more It is a serious question both in philosophy and the history of ideas just how our conception of mind has evolved. There is something of a consensus that Descartes introduced a particular conception and one, interestingly, that can be seen to take shape against the backdrop of an evolving scientific conception of the world. This scientific account of the world had no room for mind, and Descartes helped things along by hiving off the mind, so to speak, into its own realm. In Descartes's world-view mind and body are distinct, and distinct substances.
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Routledge eBooks, Dec 21, 2000
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Dec 23, 2016
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McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Jun 12, 2006
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks, Jul 1, 2013
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Sep 1, 2002
MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES This series consists of occasional volumes of original papers ... more MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES This series consists of occasional volumes of original papers on predefined themes. The Mind Association nominates an editor or editors for each collection, and may co-operate with other bodies in promoting conferences or other ...
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Teorema: Revista internacional de filosofía, 2013
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Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 29, 2019
It has been suggested that we can come by our knowledge of what others think and feel through per... more It has been suggested that we can come by our knowledge of what others think and feel through perception. The idea has been worked out in different ways by different philosophers. In this chapter I consider the perceptual account proposed by Fred Dretske. In section one I outline Dretske’s account, and highlight a particular feature of it. In section two I set out an adequacy condition for any account that proposes to be an account of our mental life. In section three I consider Dretske’s account in the light of this adequacy condition and argue that Dretske’s account does not meet this condition. I conclude that while Dretske holds that we get our knowledge of other minds in much the same way that we get our knowledge of bodies in the world around us, I argue that the account cannot be extended to give us knowledge of other minds because there is a crucial asymmetry here that must be acknowledged.
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Routledge eBooks, Apr 29, 2019
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Teorema: Revista internacional de filosofía, 1996
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The Journal of Philosophy, 1991
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Sophia, Nov 29, 2022
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ProtoSociology (Frankfurt), 2006
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Philosophical Books, Oct 1, 1992
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Topoi-an International Review of Philosophy, Dec 24, 2022
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Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 29, 2019
The essays in this volume are concerned with the question of how we are to understand the foundat... more The essays in this volume are concerned with the question of how we are to understand the foundations of our capacity to know and understand others. While the essays address issues that have long puzzled philosophers, they also engage with more contemporary issues generated by recent empirical work in the cognitive sciences. The first two essays focus on more general concerns. They tease out various questions that have been asked in connection with others, and consider how they may be thought to be related to one another. The three chapters that follow explore some of the issues that arise when one examines questions concerning others in the light of evidence from the empirical sciences. One chapter looks at the claim that there is an asymmetry between the way in which we know our own mind and the ways in which we know other minds, another looks at when and how human infants come to know that others have minds, and the third looks at the role played by context in our acquiring knowledge of others. The third group of chapters examines the suggestion, popular in more recent times, that one comes to know the mind of others in much the same way that one comes to know about the world of bodies—through perception. The volume ends with a chapter that considers the impact on our thinking about morality of a certain way of understanding our relations to others. All the essays in this volume are newly written by internationally renowned researchers and are designed to advance our understanding of ourselves as social creatures.
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Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015
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This anthology, first launched as a series of lectures at St. Hilda's, Oxford to commemorate ... more This anthology, first launched as a series of lectures at St. Hilda's, Oxford to commemorate the centenary of the college, celebrates the contribution of seven women to their fields of research. Spanning a diverse range of subjects from physics to English literature, the essays in this volume confront new and contentious issues at the forefront of intellectual life. Contributing to the anthology are Hannah Segal, one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts; Mary Lefkowitz, the classicist; Mary Warnock, who provides an overview of moral philosophy; the literary critic and cultural historian, Marilyn Butler; endocrinologist, Lesley Rees; theoretical physicist, Cecilia Jarlskog; and biologist, Marion Dawkins.
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