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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 ...

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

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In a paper consisting of five pages Rene Descartes' life, philosophy particularly Cartesian Dualism, and whether or not it is curr...

In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...