Is There a World Beyond Our Heads? Thinking Through External World Skepticism w/ Dr. Lydia McGrew
Pat is joined by Dr. Lydia McGrew to help us think through external world skepticism. Is there really a world beyond our minds, or might everything we experience be the result of some malignant spirit manipulating our thoughts, as Descartes once suggested? Most people refuse to take these absurd hypotheticals seriously, but philosophers have often struggled to articulate just why these situations are, in fact, irrational to believe. Fortunately, Dr. McGrew has some published material on the problem of external world skepticism, which we discuss in this episode.
Is There a World Beyond Our Heads? Thinking Through External World Skepticism w/ Dr. Lydia McGrew
Resources
Lydia McGrew’s website: http://www.lydiamcgrew.com/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/LydiaMcGrewChannel
Varied Evidence Paper: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0003.010/--evidential-diversity-and-the-negation-of-h-a-probabilistic?rgn=main;view=fulltext
External World Paper: http://lydiamcgrew.com/Problemoftheexternalworldrevised.pdf
Our previous episode on Christ’s Resurrection: https://youtu.be/-HVQkfLDW1o
