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David Hume's Perspectives and the Arguments of Thomas Nagel

In five pages this paper examines how David Hume's perspectives are addressed by Thomas Nagel in his arguments. Three sources are...

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...

Arguments Surrounding the Issue of Prayer in Schools

place for religion in the schools. The debate is heated. First, it should be noted that there are many good reasons for inclusion....

Chinese Room Argument by John R. Searle

full of symbols are the data base. The small bunches that are handed in to me are questions and the bunches I then hand out are th...

Function and Design of a Dispenser for Toilet Paper

In five pages a dispenser for toilet paper is examined in this overview of function and design considerations....

Argument Analysis and Persuasive Writing

students had most likely already made prearranged plans to leave campus grounds, should be singled out as an argumentative point. ...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

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

Daycare Support Argument

develop, though selectively. Memories can bolster a childs individuality, but the memories held by a child at age two are not like...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Bilingual Education Argument

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

War on Drugs Argument and Rebuttal

needed for the nations poor and undereducated. Drugs should be legalized as the war against them is not winnable, and more importa...

Argument: Poor Urban Life Contains Certain Fixed Elements

the people merely accept poverty, gangs and an extensive drug subculture as part of modern urban life. Yet, does the popular media...

Animal Conservation Argument

the normal way of life. While in this schizophrenic society people eat animals, they also keep animals as pets, and so there is a ...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

3 Point Supporting Argument for Gun Control

bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: Why are kids killing each other? In an ideal ...

Ontological Argument on God's Existence by Rene Descartes

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Argument in Favor of Stem Cell Research Legalization

Where the governmentally funded research companies are now stalled while the debate rages, privatized groups sponsored by large co...

Aristotle's Alternatives to Plato's Arguments

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

An Argument in Favor of Owners Maintaining Staff Employees

Customers expect a certain standard of service. If labour is cut here it may either be form the waiting staff. If there are less w...

'Self' Argument of Nagel

functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. The inherent relationship that exists between self and the elements...

Epicurean Concepts of 'Ataraxia' and Aristotelian Concepts of 'Human Good,' 'The Best Good,' and 'Function Argument'

positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...

An Ethical Argument on the Abortion Issue

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

Global Financial System Reform Arguments

ended a rules based system and saw international financial systems move floating systems in the more industrialised countries (Par...

Supporting Argument for Operating Room Cameras

incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...

Thomas Hobbes' 'Fool Argument'

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...

Argument in Favor of Marijuana

thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

An Argument For the War on Drugs

as criminals who should be locked up, drug users in Europe are more likely to be invited to participate in society...Heavy users a...