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Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Rene Descartes and the Cartesian Circle

In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...

Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

What is Real, Nonfoundationalism, Dualism, and Materialism

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

Does Believing in God's Existence Make Any Sense?

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

Marxist Class Concept and Overdetermination

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

Wondering About the World in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

Test of Intelligence by Alan Turing

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

Educational Philosophies of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

Melting Beeswax and the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Meditations by Descartes, Skepticism and Science

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

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

Armstrong and Descartes on the Problem Between the Mind and Body

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

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

Painter Analogy and the First Meditation of Rene Descartes

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

Meditations of Rene Descartes and Their Implications

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

Distinction Between the Mind and Body and Sixth Meditation of Rene Descartes

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

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...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...