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Substance According to John Locke

philosophy and political theory has been incalculable. Substance In the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke carefully ...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

Intrinsic Association Between the Healing of the Body and Mind

-- that is, our need to rise above ourselves in order to see and respond to others needs. Listening to the body helps us to know ...

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Subconscious Mind and Hallucinogenic Drugs

drugs and that use which had been in play among groups such as the Native Americans for centuries? The answer to both of these qu...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

How Hitler Designed "Mein Kampf" As A Blueprint For What Would Soon Follow

as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" (Hitler, 1969, p. 293). Propaganda reflects the attempt to...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

"X-Men" - Relationship To the Study Of History

and racism" (Baron, 2003, p. 44). Two points in particular that bring a connection between X-Men and the study of history is how...

Drugs and Dr. Andrew Weil

worship and spirituality was heathen and evil. Dr. Weil wrote in his book, THE NATURAL MIND - An Investigation of Drugs and the Hi...

Obstacles of Knowledge According to Francis Bacon

were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...

The Death Penalty and Juveniles

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Introduction to Montessori

uses the external world to obtain information and knowledge (Montessori 1995). The child has an absorbent mind from birth to age...

Pscyhology and Disease

Organization of Behavior, Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb established the first comprehensive theory of brain capacity for in...

Impact Of Healthful Eating On Physical And Mental Processes

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...

DASANI - GREEN OR GREENWASHING?

plastic, with future generations of the bottle relying on other types of plant material (New Dasani Bottle Made Partially of Plant...

Answers to Some Questions on Psychology

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

Montessori Mathematics

Montessori understood that math is more than numbers and calculations. It involves space, patterns, symbols, and patterns and the ...

Teacher Who Opened my Mind by Mark Edmundson

revealed by ancient and modern philosophers. However, in making these plans, Lears overlooked the mind-numbing aspects of the fact...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall'

In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...

Mind Philosophy

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

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

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

Happiness According to Immanuel Kant and Aristotle

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

Rights of Gays and Lesbians

cannot use the 21st century to repeat the horrors of the 20th century that have included world war, genocide, holocaust, nuclear d...