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David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Schools and Gender Bias

the boys can get in there and do their work" (2). The authors ask the reader to imagine how discriminatory it might seem if the te...

David Hume's Perspectives and the Arguments of Thomas Nagel

In five pages this paper examines how David Hume's perspectives are addressed by Thomas Nagel in his arguments. Three sources are...

David Fincher's Film The Fight Club

out on half a week or so of this bizarre therapy. One can even wonder what Marlas real role is in the movie, other than to give c...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

U.S. Judicial System and Prejudice

our limitations. If an individual is judging who is guilty of a crime with a choice of two people, and has the knowledge of the ...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Two Perspectives on Economic and Social Development by Foster and Landes

In nine pages a comparative analysis of two texts that consider social and economic development and the influence of capitalism, T...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

Walking on Thin Ice by David Hempleman Adams

In seven pages this paper discusses the North Pole expedition of 2 men as recounted in this text by David Hempleman Adams. There ...

Concepts of Nature and Wilderness

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

Social Change as Viewed by David Landes and John Foster

In ten pages two comparative and contrasting views on social change are examined as they are represented in John Foster's The Vuln...

Globalization's Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper consists of fifteen pages and considers globalization and its effects through an assessment of advantages and disdadvan...

Immoral Act Ethical Justification

take that same action" (Hosmer 379). In effect, the philosopher was saying that by continuing forward with such things that appea...

Silent Lipreading and Activating the Auditory Cortex

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages the article 'Activation of the Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading' written by ...

Setting Impact of David Michael Kaplan's Short Story 'Doe Season'

In five pages this paper assesses the impact of the winter woods' setting on 'Doe Season,' a 1985 short story by David Michael Kap...

Modernity and What it Means

In five pages this paper attempts to derive modernity's meaning in an examination of All That is Solid Gold Melts into the Air by ...

Madame Butterfly and Othello, Themes Compared

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

Canada as a Multinational Entity

This five page paper investigates the friction in play between French Canadians and those of English descent. The paper relies ex...

How America's Schools Cheat Girls

The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...

Mind Philosophy

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

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Miracles According to David Hume

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

Principals and Changing the Educational System

In five pages the influence of principals upon the educational system is considered within the context of the book written by Anna...

Multiculturalism and David A. Hollinger's Postethnic America

with whatever non-descent communities are available and appealing to them" (p. 116). Hollinger calls such a vision "postethnic" t...

Democracy Benefits and Risks

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

David Ricardo and His Economic Theories

In five pages this tutorial examines the theories of economist David Ricardo with helpful footnotes included. Six sources are cit...

Subjective and Objective Morality and Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...