External World Skepticism

Skepticism, Sensitivity, and Closure, or Why the Closure Principle is Irrelevant to External World Skepticism

Is there a plausible argument for external world skepticism? Robert Nozick’s well–known discussion focuses upon arguments which utilize the Sensitivity Requirement and the Closure Principle. Nozick claims, correctly, that no such argument succeeds. But he gets almost all the details wrong. The Sensitivity Requirement and the Closure Principle are compatible; the Sensitivity Requirement is incor...

Stabilization Policies in the World Economy: Scope and Skepticism

Stabilization Policies in the World Economy: Scope and Skepticism Author(s): Jeffrey Sachs Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the NinetyFourth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1982), pp. 56-61 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1802303 . Accessed: 20/04/2012 1...

Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World [Review]

Constructing the External World.

In this issue of Neuron, Pluta et al. (2017) find a novel map of external space in primary somatosensory cortex, generated by multi-whisker interactions during active touch.

Charcot's skepticism.

This paper brings a short review about a peculiar characteristic of Professor Charcot, the father of neurology: the skepticism, emphasizing his personal view regarding the prognosis of several neurological conditions.