Research Leave Award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
St Hilda's College is pleased to announce that Dr Anita
Avramides, Philosophy and Politics Fellow, has been awarded a Research Leave
Award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the latest (and
last) round of that scheme. Further
details about the project are as follows:
Knowledge and Other Minds: "One model for how we know that there are
other minds is a perceptual one: I can
see that my daughter is in pain. Even
where there is agreement on the model, there is important disagreement over
whether, as well as seeing that my daughter is in pain, I can see that there
are other minds. I explore some reasons
for, on the one hand, the more limited and, on the other, the more extensive claim.
This leads me into a more general
consideration of the skeptical challenge to our knowledge that there are other
minds. How one positions oneself
vis-à-vis the radical skeptic is one of the things that differentiates
knowledge internalists from knowledge externalists. I consider the externalist challenge to
traditional, Cartesian, epistemology, and compare and contrast it with the
challenge one finds in the pages of Wittgenstein's On Certainty. I argue that the Wittgensteinian challenge is
the more radical. As I understand this
work, our fundamental relation to others is not one of knowledge, but of action
(or, as I prefer to say "of our interaction with others")" - Dr Anita Avramides.
Created by Julia Bradley on Friday, 23 October 2009
