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The aim is to explore how we understand the existence of others and perceive minds in action. It emphasizes the connection between perception and interpersonal awareness.

April 18, 2026Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society0 citationsOpen Access

Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

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LOLucy O’Brien

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The aim is to explore how we understand the existence of others and perceive minds in action. It emphasizes the connection between perception and interpersonal awareness.
Analyzes philosophical insights from Nathalie Duddington.
Examines the relationship between perception of animate beings and the understanding of other minds.
Explores how being affected by others enhances knowledge of their minds.
Proposes a new way of understanding the observation of minds in action.
Suggests that experiencing the influence of others surpasses mere perception.
Offers an antidote to solipsism by highlighting interconnectedness through awareness.

Abstract

Abstract What enables me to know that others exist? Nathalie Duddington offers two distinctive, and underexplored, insights into the question. She focuses on our capacity to perceive minds in perceiving animate beings, and on the ways in which we stand to be affected by others in knowing them. I will suggest a way of understanding what it is to see minds in action. I will also argue that ways we stand to be affected by others offers a resource for knowing others that takes us beyond perception, and is one that constitutes an antidote to the solipsist.

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Lucy O’Brien (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e31ff140886becb653f185 https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoag008

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April 18, 2026Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society0 citationsOpen Access

Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

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LOLucy O’Brien

Key Points

The aim is to explore how we understand the existence of others and perceive minds in action. It emphasizes the connection between perception and interpersonal awareness.
Analyzes philosophical insights from Nathalie Duddington.
Examines the relationship between perception of animate beings and the understanding of other minds.
Explores how being affected by others enhances knowledge of their minds.
Proposes a new way of understanding the observation of minds in action.
Suggests that experiencing the influence of others surpasses mere perception.
Offers an antidote to solipsism by highlighting interconnectedness through awareness.

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Lucy O’Brien (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e31ff140886becb653f185 https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoag008

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