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

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

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

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

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

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...

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...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

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...

In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

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

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

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

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

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

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

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

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

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

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

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

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...