Description

• Title:
  Brains in a vat
• Creator:
  Albiński, Tomasz
• Description:
  Although there is a disagreement about how Putnam’s argument should be understood, it is possible to point to several elements of this argument which are common for many different reconstructions. In this paper I have tried to show that not all of them are unquestionable. And I want to propose a new way in which self-refutation of statement „I am a brain in a vat” may be understood. A form of this reconstruction is neutral for controversy about metaphysical realism or skepticism – it differs from the argument suggested by Putnam’s text. But I think that a story about envatted brains is simply a story about a language.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2012.06.16
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Public Philosophy & Democratic Education; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012); 81-92;
  Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna; Tom 1 Nr 1 (2012); 81-92;
  2299-1875
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fped/article/view/12959/12725
• Subject:
  brains in vats;
  Putnam;
  realism;
  Matrix
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fped/article/view/12959
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other