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in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

and civilization. This paper considers his works, his worldview, his influence on his most famous student, Alexander, and how he b...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

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

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

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

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