On Being with Others (Electronic book text)

"On Being With Others" is an outstanding and compelling work that uncovers one of the key questions in philosophy: how can we claim to have knowledge of minds other than our own? Simon Glendinning's fascinating analysis of this problem argues that it has polarized debate to such an extent that we do not know how to meet Wittgenstein's famous challenge that "to see the behavior of a living thing is to see its soul." This book sets out to discover whether Wittgenstein's remark can be justified by drawing on both the analytic and continental traditions.