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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 four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

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

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

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

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

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

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...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

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

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

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

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

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...