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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John Hawthorne is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the Magdalen College of Oxford University.

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