The epistemelogical worth of the skeptical method.
When: Monday 09/29/2008 at 8PM
Where: Nolan’s (use 33rd street entrance to Charles Commons)
Useful Reading:
- Descartes’ First Meditation
- Skepticism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/
- Cartesian epistemology: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
- Australian Journal of Philosophy on brain-in-vat: http://www.geocities.com/black_tim/Moorean_response.htm
- google/wikipedia: philosophic skepticism, solipsism, brain in vat, etc.
Useful Watching:
- The Truman Show (ordinary skepticism)
- The Matrix (philosophic skepticism)
