A refutation of global scepticism

Gemes, Ken (2009) A refutation of global scepticism. Analysis 69 (2), pp. 218-219. ISSN 0003-2638.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/anp004

Abstract

Various possibilities, that one is dreaming, that one is being deceived by a deceitful demon, that one is a brain in the vat being stimulated to think one has a body and is in a regular world, have been invoked to show that all one's experience-based beliefs might be false. Descartes in Meditation I advises that in order not to lapse into his careless everyday view of things he, or at least his meditator, should pretend that all his experience-based beliefs, indeed all his...

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Philosophy
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2010 09:25
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2013 12:19
URI:	http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2701

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