The Slightest PhilosophyDog Ear Publishing, 2007 - 276 pages |
Contents
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The Same Waking that Dreaming | 16 |
Are You on the Bus? | 23 |
The Postmodern PrisonHouse | 33 |
Seeing Things | 43 |
Cross Your Eyes | 50 |
The Case of the Bent | 56 |
Peirce and Turkey | 110 |
Color and Subjectivity | 118 |
You Cant Get There From Here | 135 |
Chancy vs Chancier | 150 |
How Much is Enough Justification? | 164 |
Is This an Appeal to Simplicity? | 177 |
A Web of Coherence Founded on the Given | 192 |
Humes Riddle of Induction | 205 |
Are Observations TheoryLaden? | 64 |
Arguments from Illusion | 74 |
Are Objects Objective? | 80 |
One Truth or Many? | 86 |
Reference the Oval Coin | 92 |
Losing the World | 102 |
Is This Too Negative? | 219 |
APPENDIX | 241 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 256 |
3 | 270 |
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Page vii - It seems evident, that men are carried, by a natural instinct or prepossession, to repose faith in their senses; and that, without any reasoning, or even almost before the use of reason, we always suppose an external universe, which depends not on our perception, but would exist, though we and every sensible creature were absent or annihilated.
Page vii - By what argument can it be proved, that the perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects, ;•* entirely different from them, though resembling them...