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In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

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

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

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

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

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...

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

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

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

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

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

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...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

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...

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