SEARCH RESULTS

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

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 ...

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

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

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...

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

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...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...

In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

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

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...