How Can We Know that We're Not Brains in Vats?

Southern Journal of Philosophy 38 (S1):121-148 (2000)
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This should be fairly close to the text of this paper as it appears in The Southern Journal of Philosophy 38 (2000), Spindel Conference Supplement: 121-148.

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10.1111/j.2041-6962.2000.tb00933.x

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