 Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e Theodore Schick,
Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn
The Problem of Skepticism and Knowledge Facing Reality: Perception and the External World
Thought ProbesHypothesizing the External World: Does the hypothesis that there is an external world provide the best explanation of our sense experience?
| Epistemological Problems of Perception
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/)
Epistemological Problems of Perception
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article |  | | | External World
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/extworld.htm)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article | | | | Perception and Sense Data
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/sensedata.html)
Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University) | | | | Plato's Cave and the Nature of Visual Perception
(http://www.eri.harvard.edu/faculty/peli/lab/slehar/webstuff/pcave/outline.html#pcave)
Series of articles by Steve Lehar (Harvard University) arguing that the external world is inside our head | | | | Stove's Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
(http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/worst.html)
Article by James Franklin (University of New South Wales) on arguments that claim we cannot have knowledge of the external world | | | | Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles
(http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/Sosa/Archives/reflectiveknowledge.pdf)
Article by Ernest Sosa (Brown University) providing an analysis of Moore's argument for the external world |
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