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Cogito and Rene Descartes

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Rene Descartes and the Cartesian Circle

In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Dream Doubt in the First Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

'Descartes' Evil Genius' by O.K. Bouwsma

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

Intellect and Knowledge and Descartes

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Did Descartes Question His Own Thought Process?

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

PHILOSPHY AND THE CONCEPT OF REALITY

Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...

HOW DOUBT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD

in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

"Discourse on the Method," Part 4, Descartes

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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

Aristotle and Rene Descartes Define Philosophy

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

Existence of God and Philosophical Proof

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

The Sixth Meditation by Descartes

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Concept of God

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Hypothetical Case Study on the Soul's Existences

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

Methodic Doubt of Rene Descartes

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...