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

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...