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

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

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

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

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

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short 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 Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

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...

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

In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...