In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by two returning guests, Dr. Michael Huemer and PhD candidate, Nate Lauffer, to discuss Dr. Huemer's "Serious Theories and Skeptical Theories: Why You Are Probably Not a Brain in a Vat" (Philosophical Studies 173 (2016) 1031-52). 

We cover Dr. Huemer's refutations of different conceptions of the brain-in-a-vat and then apply the same arguments to Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument and the Simulation Hypothesis therein. 

Check out my earlier episode with Dr. Huemer on all things philosophical here: https://youtu.be/oUH4tdt6yhk

and my earlier episode with Nate on disagreement here: https://youtu.be/A5u4AWkQA2Y

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