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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...
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...
This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
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...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
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...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
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...
In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...
This research report looks at this ultimate skeptic and explores doubt and truth in terms of all intellectual propositions. Is Des...
This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...
This research report looks at one of Descartes' most well known theories. The basis of the Cartesian Circle is duly noted. The ide...
This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...
In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...