ABSTRACT

This chapter explains that there is no epistemic problem about the knowledge of other minds and their identity either. The reason why other minds present a problem in traditional theories is the belief of these philosophers in one or all of the natural assumptions. Descartes, thinking about the existence of other finite, created, thinking and unextended substances, in short, other human minds, uses the form of an argument from analogy. In arguing from analogy for the existence of other minds, Descartes is not alone. He is accompanied by practically all empiricist philosophers. Recent empiricist philosophers attempt another solution to the problem of other minds. Having proved that the classical argument for analogy as well as some modified versions of it are unable to help us solve the problem of other minds. The technique of knowing the identity of the other minds includes many observational facts about others, but the primary among them is the bodily appearance.