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

This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...

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

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

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...

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

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

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

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...

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

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

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...

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

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

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

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

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...