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This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...
This research report looks at one of Descartes' most well known theories. The basis of the Cartesian Circle is duly noted. The ide...
This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...
rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...
Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...
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...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
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 fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
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 problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...
This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...
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...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
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...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...