Wes Alwan

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6,050 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard yesterday

Wes Alwan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · PEL Presents Closereads: Donald Davidson on Self-Knowledge (Part One) · 5 Sep 2026 podcast

It's the pain of Aristotelian slights and anger, what psychoanalysts would call narcissistic injury. podcast-host

So... podcast-host

I think we can be wrong about the nature of a pain and badly wrong, and that can make it worse. podcast-host

So just to go back and answer your question a little bit. podcast-host

So that does add wrinkles and complications ultimately to these views, I think. podcast-host

I should be in podcast-host

Yeah, I mean, this is really an odd thing and it speaks to the stoic insight, right? podcast-host

The stoic intuition, which is that we can have these propositional attitudes, these beliefs that do change the qualia, the phenomena. podcast-host

Or do they? podcast-host

I mean, that's a paper. podcast-host

I'm sure it's been written many times, but do they and how do they do it? podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

They certainly make it worse, right? podcast-host

The child example you're giving. podcast-host

Yeah, I think we'd have to, our default view would have to be, yes, it does change the qualitative feel of the experience. podcast-host

It doesn't just add on other qualities, right? podcast-host

But anyway, that bears a lot of thinking about. podcast-host

The connection between the problem of first-person authority and the traditional problem of other minds is obvious. podcast-host

But as I pose the former problem, there are two important differences. podcast-host

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. podcast-host

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