Quantum correlations and the explanatory power of radical metaphysical hypotheses.
I argue that, in at least one important sense, the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat provides better explanations than the explanations provided by standard ways of interpreting our best scientific theories. This puts pressure on anyone who—like me!—wishes to resist taking this radical hypoth...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 179; no. 7; pp. 2391 - 2415 |
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