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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e
Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Problem of Skepticism and Knowledge
Things Aren't Always What They Seem: Skepticism About Skepticism

Thought Probes

Dreams and Reality: Is there no way to distinguish dreams from reality?

Descartes First Meditation
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/meditation1.html)

Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University)
Philosophy and the Matrix
(http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/phi.html)

Collection of articles by professional and non-professional philosophers on the philosophical implications of the movie, The Matrix.
What's So Bad About Living in the Matrix?
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/papers/matrix-local.html)

Article by James Pryor (Princeton University) on the prospect of living in the Matrix
The Construction of Reality in Waking Life and Dreaming Life
(http://www.integralage.org/docs/dreaming&reality.html)

Discussion of the value of shamanic dream journeys and lucid dreaming by Stanley Krippner and Ted Sichelman (Saybrook Graduate School)
Reality vs. Dreams
(http://www.societyofbabel.org/show_story.php?action=edit&story_id=2)

Article from the Society of Babel arguing that we must trust our senses
The Argument from Dreaming
(http://www.philosophyonline.co.uk/tok/scepticism5.htm)

Article from philosophyonline.com exploring the dream argument
Philosophical Reflections of Dreams and Reality
(http://www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/ccha/PhilProjects.htm)

Overview of different responses to the dream argument from the Alice Project (El Camino College)
How Virtual Reality is a Dream Come True
(http://www.xs4all.nl/~talltree/jthesistxt.pdf)

Masters Thesis by Joris P Weijdom (University of Utrecht) arguing that virtual reality is a useful tool for exploring the mind