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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...

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...

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...

Knowledge and Philosophy

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

'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...

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...

Analysis of Rene Descartes' Two Meditations

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Dreams and Sigmund Freud

of dreams" (pp. 50). The Shadows of Dreams What appears to have often been forgotten in the debate over the validity of Freuds ...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

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...

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...

Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

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...

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...

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...

Nursing and Knowledge

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

"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...

Distinction Between the Mind and Body and Sixth Meditation of Rene Descartes

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

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

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...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

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

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...