Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 2

The Book Club on Mike Huemer’s Knowledge, Reality, and Value continues.  Today, I cover Part 2 of the book.  To repeat, though I’m a huge fan of the book, I’m focusing almost entirely on disagreements.

1. One of Huemer’s preferred responses to the classic Brain-in-a-Vat (BIV) scenario is that – especially compared to the Real World story – its a weakly-supported theory.

The Real World theory predicts (perhaps not with certainty, but with reasonably high probability) that you should be having a c...