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Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

Philosophy and Doubt of Rene Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

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...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

The Mind/Body Problem

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

Rene Descartes, Philosophy and Psychology

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

Intellect and Knowledge and Descartes

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

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...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

Knowledge Management

Management In the past it may be argued that knowledge management was a potential source of competitive advantage, but i...

The Theory and Difficulties of Cartesian Dualism

which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Philosophy Defined

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

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

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

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...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Cogito and Rene Descartes

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...

Rene Descartes' Contributions

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

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

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...

'Of Identity And Diversity' According to John Locke

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

Methodic Doubt of Rene Descartes

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Self Identity Problems

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

Concept of God

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