The Metaphysical Problem of Other Minds

the problem of divine hiddenness

این رساله به مساله احتجاب الهی و مشکلات برهان مبتنی بر این مساله میپردازد. مساله احتجاب الهی مساله ای به قدمت ادیان است که به طور خاصی در مورد ادیان ابراهیمی اهمیت پیدا میکند. در ادیان ابراهیمی با توجه به تعالی خداوند و در عین حال خالقیت و حضور او و سخن گفتن و ارتباط شهودی او با بعضی از انسانهای ساکن زمین مساله ای پدید میاید با پرسشهایی از قبیل اینکه چرا ارتباط مستقیم ویا حداقل ارتباط وافی به ب...

Emotion and Other Minds

What is the relation between emotional experience and its behavioural expression? As very preliminary clarification, I mean by ‘emotional experience’ such things as the subjective feeling of being afraid of something, or of being angry at someone. On the side of behavioural expression, I focus on such things as cowering in fear, or shaking a fist or thumping the table in anger. Very crudely, th...

Descartes and Other Minds

Descartes's distinction between material and thinking substance gives rise to a question both about our knowledge of the external world and about our knowledge of another mind. Descartes says surprinsingly little about this second question. In the Second Meditation he writes of our (single) judgement that the figures outside his window are men and not automatic machines. It is argued in this pa...

Quantum Gravity as a Metaphysical Problem

Quantum gravity is usually represented as being one of the central open problems of modern fundamental physics. It is presented as being “a dream, a theoretical need and a scientific goal. It is a theory which still does not exist in complete form”, a “yet-to-be-found theory” [1]. The starting point of this paper is that such a non-existence claim is wrong: There exists a simple and straightfor...

All Heads Gently Nodding How Naturalism Dissolves the Problem of Other Minds