PHIL 2420 Lecture Notes - Alan Sokal, Stanley Milgram, Exaptation
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Writes his methodologies on how people can pursue knowledge. The first part takes skepticism as true i think therefore i am (cogito ergo sum) Theory of evil demon creating a virtual reality. The only thing we cannot doubt is ourselves. To get back to where we started we have to look in the mind. Argues that there must be a god. Arrives back at the physical world because of senses. His concept of knowledge is beyond all possible doubt. Set the bar so high that nothing can be knowledge, even the cogito ergo sum. Our concept of knowledge is beyond a reasonable doubt. Need a separate independent reason to believe in the evil demon, otherwise you believe in something imaginary, not reasonable. Hardwired into the brains of simple organisms. Instinct: behaviour in our dna that was evolved because it increased survival and adaptation. The next stage of complexity, open-behavioural programs.
