 There has been an inclination in philosophy to find a difficulty accounting for our relations to others to have its roots in the writings of Descartes. If there is some truth to this accusation, one may expect to find the ‘problem of other minds’ less pressing in the work of pre-Cartesian philosophy. With the possible exception of Augustine (whose work is taken by some to be a pre-cursor to Descartes’), this is arguably the case.