are there any books that can help disprove the theory of solipsism??

Question

any famouse philosophers or other books?

Answer 1

Yes - read up on existientialism.

Answer 2

You can do no better than the works of Augustine (Contra Academicos) and Epictetus. A.A. Long has a very helpful introductory work on Epictetus. It is easy to find on amazon. The long ans short of it is that solipsism and other such theories appear to be self-refuting. Wittgenstein indicates this in his private language argument. I believe his private language argument goes a long way toward knocking out solipsism.

Answer 3

Now you made me read the article about Solipsism on Wikipedia.It took me more than an hour.It is certainly a good place to start and if you want to go to various philosophy books,good luck!

Answer 4

Only if you are competent to interpret them You might try empiricism.

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/m.htm#empiricism

Empiricism

Doctrine that sense experience is the sole source of knowledge. Empiricism originated in England in the seventeenth century with Bacon, Hobbes and Locke, when it was a materialist trend, is as much as it directed attention to the observation of Nature as opposed to Holy scripture or introspection. Bacon, & Co. recognised the material world as the source of sensation, and that sense experience has objective content. The Rationalist critique of Empiricism, and particularly the idealist critique of Berkeley forced empiricism to the scepticism of Hume: experience was the only source of knowledge, but could not give us "certain knowledge". For example, we may know that the Sun has always risen in the East, and this may be good enough for practical purposes, but Hume explained that we cannot know for certain that the Sun will rise in the East tommorow.

Empiricism is characterised, on the one hand, by an uncritical attitude towards the categories through which Experience is grasped, and on the other by rejection of the significance of Reason in acquiring knowledge. This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of Rationalism and fell into scepticism. Experience does not by itself give necessary and universal knowledge. Experience must be supplemented by the activity of Reason. The chief defect of Empiricism is that it views experience passively, whereas in order to retain a consistent materialist understanding of experience it is necessary to recognise that it is the practical activity of people changing the world which is the condition and source of knowledge. Further, knowledge only arises in and through definite social relations, through which people produce the forms of activity under which experience can be grasped; but for Empricism, experience is not a social activity, but simply a passive, sensual process.

Further Reading: Empiricism and Its Evolution by Gerge Novack, and Geoff Pilling's explanation, Hegel's critique of Empiricism, and in particular it's defect"

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 5

The Grail Message, "In the Light of Truth".

Answer 6

the psychology of the very human mind ostracizes this school of thought, but there are many opposing forces at work on it. Why? Did you want to sound all nice and smart? It worked, but your motives are obvious.

Answer 7

I was going to recommend Sartre, but I don't think even he could...