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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...

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...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

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...

In five pages this paper discusses how 'modern' man's ailments of the spirit, body, and mind can be cured by the beliefs contained...

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

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

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

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...

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...

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

to lose weight, media pressure to gain weight, and media pressure to increase muscle tone (McCabe et al, 2003). Both studi...

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

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...

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...