Other Minds

References and further reading

These are all non-technical and manageable with reasonable effort.

	Buford, T.O. (1970) Essays on Other Minds, Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press. (A useful, varied collection, including some classical items, particularly two by N. Malcolm expounding Wittgenstein.)
	Hill, C.S. (1991) Sensations: a Defense of Type Materialism, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Chapter 9, ‘Knowledge of other minds’, discusses the conceptual problem of other minds, and also defends a version of the analogical inference to other minds.)
	Hyslop, A. (1994) Other Minds, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (An extended defence of the analytical/hypothetic inference to other minds.)
	McDowell, J. (1982) ‘Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 68: 455–479. (Hostile to criteria but exploring the issues at a fundamental level.)
	McGinn, C. (1984) ‘What is the Problem of Other Minds?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary vol. 58: 119–137. (A discussion of the conceptual problem of other minds.)
	Pargetter, R. (1984) ‘The Scientific Inference to Other Minds’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62: 158–163. (A good (favourable) account of other minds as theoretical entities.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations, Oxford: Blackwell. (The classical source for criterialism and private language.)