Research seminar: 'External World Scepticism and the Logical Error of the Sceptic'
Claudio Salvatore
Research seminar: 'External World Scepticism and the Logical Error of the Sceptic' 11 October 2013 de Havilland Campus
About the event
Event type: Seminar
I present and discuss a number of influential anti-sceptical positions inspired by Moore's 'Proof of the external world' (1939) and Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' (1969).
I argue that these proposals fail to represent a valid response to sceptical worries. Furthermore, drawing on Wittgenstein's notion of 'hinge propositions' I propose a different anti-sceptical strategy, for which we should dismiss Cartesian-style scepticism as the result of a logical error.