Scepticism

What is the purpose of philosophical scepticism?

• To see whether we are brains in vats

• To test the limits of knowledge

• To argue that we don't know anything at all

• To suspend judgement on all matters

'We cannot know that the past existed' is an example of...

• Global scepticism

• Local scepticism

• Normal incredulity

• Lockean scepticism

Descartes 3 waves of doubt are...

• Evil demon, illusions and the cogito

• Wax, evil demon and dreaming

• The trademark, dreaming and illusions

• Evil demon, dreams and illusions

The difference between philosophical doubt and normal incredulity is...

• Philosophical doubt is more extreme

• For normal incredulity, we have evidence

• Normal incredulity only focuses on local scepticism

• Philosophical doubt is always global

Descartes escapes scepticism by...

• Showing we know we exist through the cogito

• Showing an evil demon couldn't exist

• Showing God exists and is no deceiver

• Showing that God is perfect and infinite

(Multiple choice) Locke's argument against scepticism is...

• Coherence of the senses

• Best hypothesis

• Involuntary nature of the senses

• Master argument

Russell's argument is...

• The best guess

• The Master argument

• The best hypothesis

• The veil of perception

Hume's response is...

• To poke scepticism with his fork

• The senses cohere

• It doesn't really matter either way

• We should trust our strong natural inclination

(Multiple answers )Berkeley's response to scepticism is...

• God wouldn't deceive us

• You perceive the mind dependent world directly so there is no room for scepticism

• Our senses are coherent

• We are in the (God) matrix

Reliabilists respond to scepticism by...

• If we have a reliable process we can rule out BIV situations

• We can reliably pick mushrooms we can reliably know we are not BIVs

• We can't reliably know whether we are BIVs

• We can rely on a malign demon to deceive us