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

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

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

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

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

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

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

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

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...