Telepathy, Other Minds, and Category Errors.
In this paper, I explore several issues surrounding what is called "telepathy" in the context of the problem of other minds. I begin with a quick review of the conditions in which this notion arose and the difficulties to which it gave rise upon its introduction. This review will allow me, after hav...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 1088 - 1100 |
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