Thinking about Nothing: Can you think about nothing? That is, can nothingness be the object of your thought? If so, can you describe what you're thinking about when you're thinking about nothing? How can I be both "awake" and "thinking about nothing" at the same time?
(http://www.zen-deshimaru.com/EN/teaching/questions/question2.html)
A zen master's take on thinking about nothing Nothingness
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/)
Nothingness in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Parmenides' Principle
(http://www.elea.org/Parmenides/Parm-comment.html)
Allan F. Randall on Parmenides Bostrom's Simulation Argument: Do you think it is probable that you are living in a computer simulation? Are you living in a computer simulation?
(http://www.simulation-argument.com/)
Nick Bostrom's page on the simulation argument. It features a wealth of resources, including scholarly articles debating Bostrom's paper and Bostrom's replies. Be sure to check it out. Review of Bostrom's Simulation Argument
(http://www.stanford.edu/class/symbsys205/BostromReview.html)
A review of Bostrom's argument not included on Bostrom's page This Modern World: Living in Simulated America
(http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16344)
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow Innate Knowledge: Do you think that there are any concepts or truths that all normal humans have or know? Rationalism vs. Empiricism
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the debate between Rationalism and Empiricism Human Knowledge
(http://www.philosophypages.com/locke/g04.htm)
A guide to John Locke's arguments regarding human knowledge Is knowledge innate?
(http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1437931)
An article tackling the question of innate knowledge Dreams and Reality: Is there no way to distinguish dreams from reality? Descartes First Meditation
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/descartes1.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://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_fr_pryor.html)
Article by James Pryor (Princeton University) on the prospect of living in
the Matrix The Argument from Dreaming
(http://www.philosophyonline.co.uk/tok/scepticism5.htm)
Article from philosophyonline.com exploring the dream argument The Problem of Induction: If the belief that the future will resemble the past must be accepted on faith, is science a religion? Does hypothetical deduction (inference to the best explanation) suffer from the same problem? The Problem of Induction
(http://dieoff.org/page126.htm)
Sir Karl Popper's paper on the problem of induction The Problem of Induction (Hume)
(http://www.princeton.edu/~grosen/puc/phi203/induction.html)
Page on the Problem of Induction as presented by Hume The Problem of Induction
(http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/Papers/REC-Rev.pdf)
Paper by Harman and Kulkarni on the problem Responses to the Problem of Induction
(http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/induction.html)
James Anderson presents a survey of responses to the problem of induction Constructing Reality: Are scientific laws invented or discovered? Is reality a human construct? It Must be Beautiful
http://www.granta.com/books/chapters/799
Chapter from It Must be Beautiful by Graham Farmello exploring the relationship between theory and reality. Religion and the Quantum World
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=39&EventId=271
Lecture on the relationship between quantum mechanics and reality by Keith Ward. Review of Searle's The Construction of Social Reality
(http://users.california.com/~rathbone/searles.htm)
Jerry Shaffer's review of Searle's The Construction of Social Reality. The review concisely summarizes Searle's arguments. Social Construction of Reality
(http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/social-construction-of-reality.html)
Page on the history of the concept of a socially constructed reality Social Construction
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction)
Wikipedia entry on social construction Hypothesizing the External World: Do you agree with Locke that the hypothesis of an external world provides the best explanation of our sense data? Compare that hypothesis and the dream hypothesis in terms of the criteria of adequacy. Which does better with regard to simplicity, scope, conservatism, and fruitfulness? John Locke
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/)
John Locke in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Dream Hypothesis, Transitions, and the Very Idea of Humanity
(http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Teac/TeacPerr.htm)
James F. Perry's article on the dream hypothesis The Problem of the External World
(http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/pcarruthers/HKHN-11.htm)
Chapter from Peter Carruthers' book Human Knowledge and Human Nature True Beliefs about Mars : Suppose a surgeon secretly implants a device in your head that gives you accurate beliefs regarding the terrain on Mars. Do you know the true beliefs produced by this device? Goldman's Reliabilist Account of Justification
( http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/goldman2.html )
Lecture notes by James Pryor ( Princeton University ) Skepticism and Foundations
( http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/Papers/Skepticism.html )
Article by Gilbert Harmon ( Princeton University ) on various view of justification Externalism and the Meta-Incoherence
( http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~howardd/metaincoherence.pdf )
Problem Article by Daniel Howard-( Western Washington University ) Snyder defending externalism (Adobe File) A Rationale for Reliabilism
( http://online.sfsu.edu/~kbach/ratrel.htm )
Article by Kent Bach defending Reliabilism True Beliefs
about Mars: Suppose a surgeon secretly implants a device in your head that
gives you accurate beliefs regarding the terrain on Mars. Do you
know the true beliefs produced by this device? Goldman's Reliabilist Account of Justification
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/goldman2.html)
Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University) Skepticism and Foundations
(http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/Papers/Skepticism.html)
Article by Gilbert Harmon (Princeton University) on various view of justification Externalism and the Meta-Incoherence
(http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~howardd/metaincoherence.pdf)
Problem Article by Daniel Howard-(Western Washington University) Snyder defending
externalism (Adobe File) A Rationale for Reliabilism
(http://online.sfsu.edu/~kbach/ratrel.htm)
Article by Kent Bach defending Reliabilism | 