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string went from side-to-side and rotated when I thought or said the command, I could not make a thermometer to actually change te...

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

a day of nothing but McDonalds food. It was a matter of a few days before Spurlock began to realize a tangible change to his expa...

beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...

the belief that low level physiological needs are more compelling in relation to behavior than higher level psychological needs, w...

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

discipline of psychology during the next century. One of his beliefs, based on past trends, is that psychology, as a field in gene...

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

something called substance dualism such as the dualism of two different sorts of things like property dualism for example (1995). ...

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

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

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

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

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

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...

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

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

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

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...

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...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...