Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Solipsism, Headache, Occasionalism

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

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They can hypothesize about them, infer them from my behavior or my language but they cant have them. Because of privacy, i cannot even know for sure that another person has conscious states. < latin solus = alone and ipse = oneself b) immediacy- you don"t infer your conscious states, you simply have them. c) incorrigibility- you cannot be in error about your conscious state. Spatial oddness spatial extension vs. spatial location: other matters concerning conscious states, conscious states and other species. We feel reasonably confident that other people have conscious states much like our own (even if we can"t prove it) Dreams, when you are in them, don"t seem like dreams. Maybe this lecture is a dream: some matters of language conscious states mental states mental events mental images sense-data percepts, the really big problem: the mind-body problem. Conscious states, whatever we say about them, are not themselves material or physical entities.