PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Foundationalism, Compatibilism, Reductionism
9 Sep 2015
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They have deceived many times in the past: example: seeing something in the distance that is closer/farther, mirage, eye witness testimony, although the senses sometimes deceive us about objects that are very small or distant, that doesn"t apply to my belief that i am here, sitting by the fire, wearing a winter dressing gown, holding this piece of paper in my hands, and so on. Radical skepticism arguments: we are unable to come up with evidence to disprove the skeptical scenarios about the world, if we cannot come up with ways to disprove them, we do not know much, therefore, we know nothing about what the world is like. Descartes" response: argues that i exist, and god exists, argues that god is not a deceiver, argues that a good god would not allow us to be deceived, concludes that our own senses must be generally reliable, and that we are able to distinguish when they are not.
