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In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

and "when athletes from different nations compete and their fans support them, there emerges a bond that can be understood only wi...

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

old stereotype that the only way to get out of the ghetto is through basketball or rap has some truth. People are born into a cert...

marines were sent to halt the fighting in Afghanistan in a mission entitled Operation Anaconda (Landis, 2002). In this war-torn c...

in the emails were exactly the same. Additionally, the emails were coming from software developers in the office, five emails in a...

one-way interplay between the ad and the viewer is a result of what Marx termed commodity fetishism, whereby the illusion of immed...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

Personal health and welfare is dependent on a number of factors. Some of these factors are things that you cannot control. Some...

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...

In four pages cultural diversity is considered in terms of how responses are generated by personal beliefs as the impact of negati...

In six pages the personal computer industry and its changes are examined in the responses of corporate giants, Gateway, Compaq, an...

In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

The writer develops two differing topics in this paper. The first is a response to a 1994 article entitled The Biological Evidence...

of energy from the sun, natural processes developed over billions of years can indefinitely renew the topsoil, water, air, forests...