ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analogy between a problem of other minds, and G. Berkeley's challenge to J. Locke's realism. It develops and defends a parallel response to the problem of other minds, as this applies to certain basic directed emotions. Reference to the appropriate expressive behaviour is essential to the identification of the way in which various emotional experiences present their worldly objects. The issue to focus upon, then, is the individuation of a person's emotional condition from the subjective experiential perspective. For the individuation of a given emotional condition from the subjective experiential perspective makes essential reference to the kind of behaviour on the basis of which that very same condition may reasonably be ascribed to others. There may be a kind of knowledge of what a given emotion involves, of which condition it is, even, which is available in the absence of this subjective experiential acquaintance.
