{"id":8665,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/other_minds_problem\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:11","slug":"other_minds_problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/other_minds_problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Other minds problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classical problem in philosophy pertaining to how we know that others have internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions. &nbsp;We cannot directly see these internal states in others. &nbsp;Why do we believe others have such invisible states, and are we justified in holding this belief (philosophical queries); where does such a view of others come from (developmental query)?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"autism\">Autism<\/a>, Medial (pre-) cortex, <a href=\"mind_reading\">Mind reading<\/a>, <a href=\"mind-blindness_theory\">Mind-blindness theory<\/a>, <a href=\"solipsism\">Solipsism<\/a>, Theory of child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classical problem in philosophy pertaining to how we know that others have internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions. &nbsp;We cannot directly see these internal states in others. &nbsp;Why do we believe others have such invisible states, and are we justified in holding this belief (philosophical queries); where does such a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/other_minds_problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Other minds problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}