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Material Substance and G.W. Leibniz

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

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)....

Reality Concept and Rene Descartes' Philosophy

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Descartes' Psychology and the 'Conscious Mental State' Theory of William James

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

Scientific Psychology and the Negative Consequences of Dualism of Mind and Body

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

Mind and Body Dualist Philosophy and Rene Descartes' Psychology

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

European Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries

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

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

3 Doubt Arguments in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

Hypothetical Conversation Between Rene Descartes and David Hume

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Test of Intelligence by Alan Turing

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...