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Transcendental arguments about other minds and intersubjectivity

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posted on 2011-05-01, 00:00 authored by M Russell, Jack ReynoldsJack Reynolds
This article describes some of the main arguments for the existence of other minds, and intersubjectivity more generally, that depend upon a transcendental justification. This means that our focus will be largely on ‘continental’ philosophy, not only because of the abiding interest in this tradition in thematising intersubjectivity, but also because transcendental reasoning is close to ubiquitous in continental philosophy. Neither point holds for analytic philosophy. As such, this essay will introduce some of the important contributions of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Karl-Otto Apel, all of whom use transcendental reasoning as a key part of their analyses of intersubjectivity, and we also consider the work of Peter Strawson who does likewise in the analytic tradition.

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Journal

Philosophy Compass

Volume

6

Issue

5

Pagination

300 - 311

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Location

London, UK

ISSN

1747-9991

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2011, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

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