Additional reflections on Putnam, Wright and Brains in Vats

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Additional reflections on Putnam, Wright and Brains in Vats

Putnam’s argument against the sceptical Brain-in-a-Vat hypothesis continues to intrigue. I argue in what follows that the argument refutes a particular kind of sceptic and make a proposal about its more general significance. To appreciate the soundness of the argument, I explain, we need to apprecia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Noonan, Harold W.
Format:	Article
Published:	De Gruyter 2016
Subjects:	Brain-in-a-Vat; scepticism; Putnam; Wright
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52825/

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