{"id":7823,"date":"2018-02-14T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2018-02-15T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:02:06","slug":"phil-talk-probabilistic-proof-of-an-external-world-nicholas-di-bella-stanford-university-h-232-340pm-february-15-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/phil-talk-probabilistic-proof-of-an-external-world-nicholas-di-bella-stanford-university-h-232-340pm-february-15-en\/","title":{"rendered":"PHIL Talk: &#8220;Probabilistic Proof of an External World,&#8221; Nicholas Di Bella (Stanford University), H-232, 3:40PM February 15 (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Probabilistic Proof of an External World&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By Nicholas Di Bella (Stanford, Philosophy)<\/p>\n<p>Date: Thursday 15th February, 2018<br \/>\nTime: 1540-1715<br \/>\nPlace: H-232<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:I provide a novel internal critique of skepticism about the external world. Appealing to premises that an external-world skeptic could accept, I argue that the skeptic should (by her own lights) be extraordinarily confident that an external world exists. These premises include commitments to various forms of a priori reasoning\u2013including commitments to classical logic, set theory, and probabilistic reasoning\u2013as well as radical empiricism about evidence. As I argue, these premises entail that the skeptic should, by her own lights, be at least 99.99999% confident\u2013just shy of certain\u2013that an external world exists.<\/p>\n<p>Web: www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr<br \/>\nFacebook: www.facebook.com\/bilkent.philosophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Probabilistic Proof of an External World&#8221; By Nicholas Di Bella (Stanford, Philosophy) Date: Thursday 15th February, 2018 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract:I provide a novel internal critique of skepticism about the external world. Appealing to premises that an external-world skeptic could accept, I argue that the skeptic should (by her [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/phil-talk-probabilistic-proof-of-an-external-world-nicholas-di-bella-stanford-university-h-232-340pm-february-15-en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7824,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}