SEARCH RESULTS

In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...

This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

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

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

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...

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

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

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

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

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

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...