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might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

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

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

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

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...

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

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

he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...

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

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...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

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

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

is entirely necessitated, as the motions of any mechanism must be. Thus the causes of the human mechanisms choices and actions ar...

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...