Six Anti-skeptical Strategies - Epistemology Video 24

This is video 24 in an introductory course on epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. In this video, we discuss six strategies against skepticism:
1. Moore's two hands
2. Sensitivity and the denial of closure
3. Contextualism
4. Wittgensteinian contextualism
5. Externalism
6. Kantian doubts about the coherence of skepticism
Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. You can follow him on mastodon: @[e-mail].
This video is part of a lecture series originally recorded for my students during the 2023/2024 spring semester. The entire playlist is here: • Course in Epistemology

[@KLarsen00]

I really like how these videos address the elephant in the room!

[@nathanwycoff4627]

I know that I liked this video. Hence there is an external world. QED.

[@VictorGijsbers]

Exactly!

[@alannolan3514]

do you White any boks. love this and your a priori/posteriori- analytical-synthetic vid was fab

[@VictorGijsbers]

Not yet, unfortunately, but when I do I'll be sure to let the channel know! (I've translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus, but in Dutch, so probably not too useful to most of you.)

[@jocr1971]

you should know you're not a brain in a vat because the sheer amount of information that would need to be simulated would require extreme technology and a power source nearly infinite.

[@VictorGijsbers]

Yeah, that's what the people who programmed our simulation *want* us to think, which is why they've created a virtual world where it's true.

[@alannolan3514]

how do skeptics know of brains?

[@gabeugenio]

I know Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street in London, which is true within the fictional domain, even though Sherlock is not real.
So, even if I'm a brain in a vat, things in my mental domain would also be true, regardless of whether they are real or not. Truth for me is always relative to a domain.

[@VictorGijsbers]

I think that's Putnam's Internal Realism?