Epistemological Issues In X-Files
In Field Trip and Bad Blood, a number of epistemological issues come up. The issues of Cartesian skepticism and relativism/perspectivism also arise. However, I believe the writers of these episodes don¡¯t find a way to resolve these classical philosophical difficulties.
Some of the epistemological issues in Field Trip are when Scully and Mulder are hallucinating underground, thinking they have escaped from the ground but they are still underground. The epistemological issues in Bad Blood are that Ronnie, the vampire want-to-be, thinks he is a vampire but is not. Ronnie is the same kind as the town people who all, at the end, have green glowing eyes and have obsessive-compulsive disorder and die when a stick is through their heart. Even though it is not a hallucination, Ronnie has his own realism of being a vampire, like in Bela Lugosi movies. Also perspectivism arises in Bad Blood when Scully and Mulder both tell the same story but in their perspective. They both are stuck in......
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