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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The connection between the problem of first-person authority and the traditional problem of other minds is obvious.
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But as I pose the former problem, there are two important differences.
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First person authority is a narrower problem since I shall consider it only as it applies to propositional attitudes like belief, desire, intention, being pleased, astonished, a feared, we're proud that something is the case or knowing, remembering, noticing, or perceiving that something is the case.
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But I shall not discuss what are often taken to be central to the problem of other minds, pains and other sensations.
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No.
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And knowledge, memory, attention and perception as directed at objects like people, streets, cities, comets and events rather than propositions.
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He's always got to include something astronomical, you know.
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What holds for the propositional attitudes, odd, it seems, to be relevant to sensations and the rest.
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But I do not explore the connection here.
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Okay, so let's... Okay, right?
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There's the problem of the other minds, and then there's first-person authority.
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Problem of the other minds, how do we... You know, I can't just say what's in your head, and I can't experience it, and I don't have direct knowledge.
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Do you even have something in your head?
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problem of first-person authority is whether I can say that I seem to have a pain that I don't have have or something like that if I don't have that first-person authority I might have pains that I I may not have pains that I think I have all right but here he's going to leave aside pain and then he's only going to consider propositional attitudes and
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And I don't
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But a propositional attitude is an interesting way to go, right?
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Because it's non-traditional.
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And because it doesn't, like the extent to which it carries qualitative content or qualia with it is disputed and unclear.
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To have a belief itself is not to say I necessarily bring up, I believe that the cat is on the mat.
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It certainly isn't the same as having the experience that the cat is on the mat or the dream or even imagining it.
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