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In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...
In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
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...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
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...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...
In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...
This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...
In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...