Wes Alwan
speaker
5,753 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Wes Alwan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, what explains the presumption that a speaker is right when he sincerely attributes a belief, desire, or intention to his present self, while there is no such presumption when others make similar attributions to him?
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It is argued that solutions to the problem of knowledge of other minds, which merely restate the asymmetry, leave open the field to the skeptic.
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A new explanation of first-person authority is offered, which traces the source of authority to a necessary feature of the interpretation of speech.
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Yeah, this attempt to language-ify, you know, already has me skeptical, but we'll see.
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Yeah, but that's, that's not, but
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the pain,
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You were
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Yeah.
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I think the thing here, you know, just the overall move is,
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Right.
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Ironically, the appeal to a necessary feature of the interpretation of speech.
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Just take that phrase.
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You can already see that that's a kind of the go to analytic replacement for introspection.
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It's like, well, we're not going to introspect, but we're going to talk about language and semantics and syntax.
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And we're going to do all this stuff with language that we used to do by just thinking about the mind.
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But we'll see.
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This is just completely prejudiced premonition.
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We'll see with Davidson.
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Well, you know already because you read it.
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I haven't.
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