Navigating Skepticism: Cognitive Insights and Bayesian Rationality in Pinillos’ Why We Doubt

What is it about?

In Why We Doubt, Pinillos challenges the idea of global skepticism, which says we can't know anything, including that we’re not just brains in a vat. Pinillos argues against this by introducing a way in which we normally respond to doubt and a Bayesian rule for thinking. He says that these two undermine the belief that we can't know we're not brains in a vat. But we question if Pinillos' idea really proves this, and we think more research is needed to convince people who aren't sure about what to say about global skepticism.

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