How threatening are local sceptical scenarios?
How threatening are local sceptical scenarios?
In this paper I distinguish between ‘local’ and ‘global’ forms of ‘envatment’. I show that recent envatment arguments (the ‘local’ variety) work similarly to arguments from perceptual illusion and that neither of them are able, by themselves, to get us ‘global’ scepticism. Consequently, motivating the radical sceptical idea that all of our perceptual beliefs might be false is harder than it looks.
local and global sceptical scenarios, arguments from perceptual illusion, Wittgenstein
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Schoenbaumsfeld, Genia
586652b5-20da-47cf-9719-4fc587dfa4e8
Schoenbaumsfeld, Genia
586652b5-20da-47cf-9719-4fc587dfa4e8
Schoenbaumsfeld, Genia
(2019)
How threatening are local sceptical scenarios?
Wittgenstein-Studien, 10 (1), .
(doi:10.1515/witt-2019-0016).
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In this paper I distinguish between ‘local’ and ‘global’ forms of ‘envatment’. I show that recent envatment arguments (the ‘local’ variety) work similarly to arguments from perceptual illusion and that neither of them are able, by themselves, to get us ‘global’ scepticism. Consequently, motivating the radical sceptical idea that all of our perceptual beliefs might be false is harder than it looks.
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local and global sceptical scenarios, arguments from perceptual illusion, Wittgenstein
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