Skepticism revisited: Chalmers on The Matrix and brains-in-vats |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical Center-Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 98, New York, NY 10032, United States;3. Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center, One Park Avenue, 8-131, New York, NY 10016, United States;4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, 35487 |
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| Abstract: | Thought experiments involving The Matrix, brains-in-vats, or Cartesian demons have traditionally thought to describe skeptical possibilities. Chalmers has denied this, claiming that the simulations involved are real enough to at least sometimes defeat the skeptic. Through an examination of the meaning of kind terms in natural language I argue that, though the Chalmers view may be otherwise attractive, it is not an antidote to skepticism. |
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| Keywords: | Putnam Chalmers Brain-in-a-vat Matrix Simulation Skepticism Kind terms |
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