How do we know Peter Millican is real?

26 October 2012

Hertford’s own professor of philosophy, Peter Millican, debated physicists’ claims to have come up with a test to help us know whether our world is a computer simulation. During the conversation on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Peter suggested that physics could learn from philosophy’s long engagement with these issues, from Descartes onwards. Perhaps he had in mind our joint degree in Physics and Philosophy…