Refuting Skepticism with Style

Elijah Millgram

University of Utah

Could you be—unawares—a brain in a vat?  Only if you have no taste.  The illusion to which you are, according to the skeptical hypothesis, being subjected must be something like a work of art, and so it will have aesthetic properties in something like the way a work of art does.  In particular, it will inevitably have a recognizable style.