The brain in the vat and the question of
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J.J.C Smart
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This article indicates some ways in which the fantasy of the brain in the vat has been used in thought experiments to discuss important philosophical problems. The first has to do with scepticism about the external world. The second has to do with Hilary Putnam's arguments for the indeterminacy of r