11/10/2006
Unpublished, Chapters 4-5
Ch 4 is about a thought experiment in The Matrix. The thought experiment rehearses Descartes' evil demon hypothesis about the external world. But the claim is that because it also puts the viewer into the same place that a subject deceived by the evil demon would be, it is a new approach or counts as 'doing philosophy'.
Ch 5 claims to be a reply to utilitarian arguments about the good. Author explains the use of a counterexample in philosophy as challenging one of the premises in a general argument. Extended discussion about the contrast between narrative vs. broad argumentation. Counterexamples may use narrative to refute a claim that 'A is an essential feature of F' by finding one example of an A not being an F.
The claim is that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind provides a counterexample to an argument that people will be better off if they do not have bad memories. Author denies the claim that he is using his own philo background to interpret this movie.
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