PHL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inductive Reasoning, Cartesian Doubt
12 Oct 2016
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Skepticism: don"t believe anything to an extent: radical skepticism, cartesian skepticism. Is there a physical world outside my mind/thought: inductive skepticism. X has happened repeatedly in the past without every failing to happen (the sun will come up tomorrow: therefore, x will happen in the future. The future will resembler the past in certain important respects. There is never evidence- there never could be. Clifford"s response to hume: we do have a lot of evidence that nature is uniform: true because believing this has led to scienti c evidences. Option: decision about whether to believe two or more hypotheses: different kinds of options: Live- you think something could be true (it"s not obvious what the answer is) Dead- you think something can"t be true (can"t take it seriously) Passional nature: cultural, unconscious impulses, feelings, animal instincts. The prestige of opinions: prestige of person telling you something takes over your mind that it must be true, milgrim"s experiment .
