Mark Hopwood
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1,269 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Sep 2014
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That he has to get to it as opposed to come from it.
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And you might say the place where we started when we started talking about how possible questions, we wanted specifically to distinguish them from weather possible questions.
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We didn't start down this track because we really thought it was possible that we don't have knowledge of the external world at all.
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That wasn't our reasoning.
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Our problem was we're pretty sure that we do, but given these considerations we can't see how it comes about.
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So
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In a sense it seems like what you're saying is Kant gets us no further than we were when we started and in a way on slightly less firm ground because we now have this somewhat dubious argument from inner experience to outer experience.
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And indeed Kant has transcendental arguments that claim to establish things that we don't necessarily all agree on at the beginning to do with our moral lives, the existence of God and these kinds of issues.
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So the problem seems to be that if I'm inclined to make sense of individual action in terms of the idea of me having certain psychological states, uh various kinds of desires for things, forming various kinds of intentions,
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If I'm inclined to think of individual action in those terms, then it looks like there would have to be a corresponding kind of mind, a corresponding set of states on the part of a group that would explain their acting together.
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It's like for us to build a wall, somehow our mind has to form the intention to do so, or something like that.
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And that that seems weird, and so people have come up with these
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alternative accounts of what's going on in terms of the relationship between the individuals' brain states.
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exactly
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Yes.
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So you wanna reject those kinds of accounts.
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There are a couple of interesting examples that you draw on that might be useful to get a clear sense of where you think the problems lie.
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What about if I wanted to avoid those kinds of analyses that you do?
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That's to say that have all these complicated relations between different people's psychological states.
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