A History of Ideas

BBC Radio 4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.

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A History of Ideas

Episodes (60)

Aug 7, 2015 Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Wittgenstein
Aug 6, 2015 Philosopher Clare Carlisle on Reality and Perception
Aug 5, 2015 Physicist Tara Shears on Falsification

A History of Ideas

Aug 7, 2015
14¾ minutes
12 MB

Paul Broks looks at the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the problem of "other minds". How do I know you are not a zombie who behaves like a human but actually has no consciousness? Even if you are conscious, how can I tell that what I experience as red, you do not experience as blue? I know what's going on in my own mind, but I can never have direct access to what's going on in yours. Such questions have troubled philosophers for centuries, but Wittgenstein thought that most of these tough problems were caused by nothing more...

A History of Ideas

Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Wittgenstein

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -12:59