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Mental States' Presence and Artificial Intelligence

In five pages this paper considers a person with an electronic brain and whether that can be regarded as possessing a mental state...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

Existence of Traditional Family Values

values that were presented to us in the middle of the 20th century. And, according to many, family values "is a code name devised ...

Hume and Descartes

human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

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...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

Human Existence, Civilization, and Philosophy According to Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

Evaluating David Benetar's Article on Existence

In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...

Iran's Kurds

but others see federalism as reasonable (2005). They believe that they can be a nation within a state. Radical groups do not se...

The Concept of Forms According to Plato and Aristotle

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Hypothetical Case Study on the Soul's Existences

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...

A Plato Philosophy and Applied Logic Argument Example

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Understanding the Disabled and Disabilities

beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that people would just as soon forget, such as with physical d...

Carboniferous Age

Carboniferous Period. Large trees covered with bark and huge ferns grew in the middle Carboniferous swamps" (Fossil Facts and Find...

Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

DUBAI VS THE MIDDLE EAST: A NATION-STATE IN LOVE WITH MONEY, NOT WAR

thus staving off what could have been a disastrous situation. A default on debt is certainly nothing to sneeze at and can h...

Is the West Responsible for the Radicalization of Islam

The contention has been presented again and again that Islam represents a multifaceted faith, not just the faith associated with t...

The G-Spot, Real or Myth?

as to whether or not the G-spot actually exists from the time that Dr. Ernst Grafenberg first described it in 1950. At that time, ...

The Role of the Financial Accounting Standards Board

The way that these processes take place is overseen by the Financial Accounting Foundations Board of Trustees (FASB, 2010). The F...

Philosophy of Doubt and Renee Descartes

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Same-Sex Marriage - A Philosophical Analysis

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

An Overview of Philosophical Egocentrism

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Eastern Philosophical Traditions and Aesthetic Experiences

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...