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considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
In five pages this paper discusses how 'modern' man's ailments of the spirit, body, and mind can be cured by the beliefs contained...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
In eight pages this paper examines Cartesian Dualism in this consideration of the problems associated with the mind and body. Sev...
In five pages the dualism that exist between mind and body is considered in the works of Cornman, Smart, and Fodor. Three sources...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
-- that is, our need to rise above ourselves in order to see and respond to others needs. Listening to the body helps us to know ...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
discipline of psychology during the next century. One of his beliefs, based on past trends, is that psychology, as a field in gene...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
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...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...
a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
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...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
something called substance dualism such as the dualism of two different sorts of things like property dualism for example (1995). ...
having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...
string went from side-to-side and rotated when I thought or said the command, I could not make a thermometer to actually change te...
persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...
fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...
say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...
a day of nothing but McDonalds food. It was a matter of a few days before Spurlock began to realize a tangible change to his expa...
her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...