Wes Alwan
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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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No, I haven't read
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Okay, so this sounds more like a grounding or a reduction.
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It sounds like he is going to argue for first-person authority, but he's going to try to ground it in language.
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So the epistemological facts, which is the traditional way of approaching this in philosophy, will get this language grounding.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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They certainly don't have theory of mind in our sense, which we know, which is basically about an understanding that others can have different beliefs than ours and they could be wrong about them.
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But yeah, they seem to have something.
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And I think concepts are largely dispositional, you know, as per meaning is use.
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Dispositions to behave...
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in certain ways and say certain things.
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This makes me sound more behavioralistically analytic than you might expect, but I think this is part of it.
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And in that way, they're similar to character traits and something I've been thinking about with psychoanalysis.
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So there's not an easy way to disentangle concepts and the self, ego, development, ego structure.
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Concepts are part of our structure and they operate non-consciously
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But we can become conscious of them, and language is the way to do that, I think.
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And then you were, just to finish what you were asking, can we be mistaken that we're in pain?
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I don't think we can, of course, because if we're, you know, someone's going to say, ooh, I'm the evil genius, I'm going to give you the illusion, the...
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the delusion that you're in pain and you go ow and of course ow is you're you are in pain the the in some cases illusions and the real thing can't be distinguished but if you're into psychoanalysis you could say well the person doesn't know why they're in pain
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They have a bad theory of their pain.
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