Six Anti-skeptical Strategies - Epistemology Video 24
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This is video 24 in an introductory course on epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. In this video, we discuss six strategies against skepticism:
1. Moore's two hands
2. Sensitivity and the denial of closure
3. Contextualism
4. Wittgensteinian contextualism
5. Externalism
6. Kantian doubts about the coherence of skepticism
Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. You can follow him on mastodon: @victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place.
This video is part of a lecture series originally recorded for my students during the 2023/2024 spring semester. The entire playlist is here: • Course in Epistemology
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I really like how these videos address the elephant in the room!
I know that I liked this video. Hence there is an external world. QED.
@VictorGijsbers
Ай бұрын
Exactly!
you should know you're not a brain in a vat because the sheer amount of information that would need to be simulated would require extreme technology and a power source nearly infinite.
@VictorGijsbers
3 күн бұрын
Yeah, that's what the people who programmed our simulation *want* us to think, which is why they've created a virtual world where it's true.