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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...

Philosophy of George Berkeley

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

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...

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 ...

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...

Nursing and Knowledge

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

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

3 Doubt Arguments in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

Bertrand Russell on the Arguments of John Locke and Rene Descartes

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Other Mind Concept and Problems Associated with It

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

What is Real, Nonfoundationalism, Dualism, and Materialism

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Test of Intelligence by Alan Turing

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

Marxist Class Concept and Overdetermination

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

Dualism Philosophy of Rene Descartes

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Refuting Rene Descartes' Argument 'I Think Therefore I Am'

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

The Idea of Thought According to Descartes

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

Religion, Faith, and the Ontological Argument

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...