Philosophy › Section G · Epistemology › Topic G.4
Skepticism
Could you be dreaming right now, or living inside a perfect simulation? Sceptical arguments use such possibilities to question whether we know anything about the world, and the replies to them reveal what knowledge really demands.
In this topic
- What sceptics claim
- Ancient doubt in Greece and China
- Descartes: dreams and the demon
- The brain in a vat
- Worked example: the sceptical argument
- Moore's reversal
- Denying closure and contextualism
- Putnam's semantic reply
- Worked example: global or local?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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