Skepticism films: Knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema

[摘要] Cinema has always displayed an affinity to characters with distorted or even hallucinatory relations to reality. With such,films as The Truman Show, the Matrix films or Inception, contemporary filmmakers add another layer to this canon of film characters:,unwitting ordinary victims of deception for who the skepticist fear that the world is not real but a simulation, fake environment,or a dream has become true. From a philosophical perspective, such films vary the idea that we are not able to know what,we think we know (Stroud) about the world we live in, about ourselves, or about others. They are 'skepticism films’: dramatized,,fictional configurations of the thought experiments which are part and parcel of philosophical reflection on knowledge and,doubt.

[发布机构] University of Amterdam