Underdetermination Skepticism and Skeptical Dogmatism
The Mundane World Hypothesis (mwh) says that we have material bodies, we have brains located inside our bodies, we have sense organs which process visual information, the direct cause of our perceptual judgments is typically macroscopic material objects, and we live in a material world. Skeptics usi...
| Published in: | International journal for the study of skepticism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Further subjects: | B
external world skepticism
underdetermination
skeptical hypothesis
Mundane World Hypothesis
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| Summary: | The Mundane World Hypothesis (mwh) says that we have material bodies, we have brains located inside our bodies, we have sense organs which process visual information, the direct cause of our perceptual judgments is typically macroscopic material objects, and we live in a material world. Skeptics using underdetermination arguments argue mwh has no more epistemic merit than some skeptical competitor, e.g., that we are in the Matrix. Since such competitor hypotheses are equipollent, we are not justified in believing mwh. This paper takes the underdetermination skeptic’s premises to a more radical conclusion: skeptical dogmatism, which is the view that mwh is probably false based on the idea that there are many equipollent competitors to mwh. |
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| ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
| Contains: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-04011124 |