Brain in the Vat

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Questions: Philosophy for Young People 8:4-4 (2008)
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A summary and brief discussion of the pedagogical usefulness of Hilary Putnam’s classic thought experiment from Reason, Truth, and History.

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10.5840/questions2008816

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