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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...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
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 two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
-- 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 ...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...