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What are anti-realists and why do they deny objective reality? What we know of the world must come through our senses and be processed by our brains. Both can be unreliable; illusions can fool our senses and illness or injury can disrupt our brains. Therefore, can we ever be sure that anything outside ourselves is truly what it seems?
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Christopher Isham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, in the Department of Physics.
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Christopher Isham - Realism vs. Anti-realism
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