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In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

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

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

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

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

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,...

of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...

with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...