There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

I distinguish three kinds of other minds problems—conceptual, epistemological and
empirical. I argue that while Merleau-Ponty believes embodiment helps with tackling the …

David Chalmers has recently developed a novel strategy of refuting external world
skepticism, one he dubs the structuralist solution. In this paper, I make three primary claims …

This paper presents a distinctively metaphysical version of the problem of other minds. The
main source of this version of the problem lies in the principle that, when it comes to …

I show that some of the most initially attractive routes of refuting epistemological solipsism
face serious obstacles. I also argue that for creatures like ourselves, solipsism is a genuine …

We ordinarily think that self and other coexist as subjects with mutually exclusive mental
lives. The conceptual problem of other minds challenges this common thought by raising …

Abstract The Problem of Other Minds (POM), in philosophy, is the challenge of explaining
the commonsense idea that others possess minds and are capable of thinking and feeling …

This paper will explore competing intuitions behind the problem of other minds. On the one
hand, consciousness is strictly a self-manifest, first-person phenomenon: subjectivity is in …

In this project I focus on our ability to achieve mutual awareness with other persons. Many
seek to explain such shared awareness in terms of individual cognitive mechanisms, and it …

A guiding thought of this dissertation will be the idea that our most basic grasp of self-
conscious beings consists in a kind of perceiving, but a kind that involves a distinctive sort of …