Expressions, looks and others' minds
Expressions, looks and others' minds
We can know some things about each others' mental lives. The view that some of this knowledge is genuinely perceptual is getting traction. But the idea that we can see any of each others' mental states themselves - the Simple Perceptual Hypothesis - remains unpopular. Very often the view that we can perceptually know, for example, that James is angry, is thought to depend either on our awareness of James' expression or on the way James appears - versions of what I call the Expressive Hypothesis. The Expressive Hypothesis is intuitive. But in this chapter I argue that it does not allow us to do away with the thought that we sometimes perceive people's mental states. I take my arguments to provide some tentative support for the Simple Perceptual Hypothesis.
other minds problem, perceptual knowledge, expressions, perceptual experience
McNeill, William
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5 September 2019
McNeill, William
be33c4df-0f0e-42bf-8b9b-3c0afe8cb69e
McNeill, William
(2019)
Expressions, looks and others' minds.
In,
Parrott, Matthew and Avramides, Anita
(eds.)
Knowing Other Minds.
Oxford.
Oxford University Press.
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Abstract
We can know some things about each others' mental lives. The view that some of this knowledge is genuinely perceptual is getting traction. But the idea that we can see any of each others' mental states themselves - the Simple Perceptual Hypothesis - remains unpopular. Very often the view that we can perceptually know, for example, that James is angry, is thought to depend either on our awareness of James' expression or on the way James appears - versions of what I call the Expressive Hypothesis. The Expressive Hypothesis is intuitive. But in this chapter I argue that it does not allow us to do away with the thought that we sometimes perceive people's mental states. I take my arguments to provide some tentative support for the Simple Perceptual Hypothesis.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2018
Published date: 5 September 2019
Keywords:
other minds problem, perceptual knowledge, expressions, perceptual experience
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420433
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Matthew Parrott
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Anita Avramides
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