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In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...

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

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

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

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 five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...