ABSTRACT
The problem of other minds concerns the fact that it seems that philosophers are unable to observe another person's mind in the same way that they can observe physical objects like tables and chairs. One's mind seems to be something that underlies one's body and one's bodily behaviour such that, although one's behaviour manifests one's mind, simply observing an agent's behaviour is not the same as observing their mind. The idea behind the approach to the problem of other minds is to maintain that philosophers can come to know that there are other minds by observing how the behaviour of others mirrors that of their own. The style of reasoning employed in the argument from analogy is defective, since one cannot legitimately reason from a correlation that holds in a single case to a general conclusion that applies to many cases.
