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programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...
the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...
able to work but not doing so (Slack, 1990). There have been different approaches taken towards the development and maintenance ...
book by Scott Soames; he asks what 20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most importa...
epistemology (the study of knowledge) and metaphysics (the study of the fundamental reality from which all others derive). This pa...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
According to Aristotle (1997), "Reasoning is demonstration when it proceeds from premises which are true and primary or of such a ...
In 10 pages this paper examines the statement regarding rationalists author Jonathan Swift was making in his portrayal of the Houy...
This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...
with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...
In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary global impact of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Four sources are listed in t...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...
In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...
In five pages this paper examines The Matrix and Blade Runner films in a discussion of how the philosophical concepts of Berkeley ...
In seven pages this research paper considers the views of Butler, Johnson, Abelard, Saint Augustine, and Plutarch on vice. Six so...
In 10 pages death is examined from the philosophical perspectives of Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, modern deconstructionalism, a...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
In eight pages this paper examines Malcolm X in a consideration of his philosophical principles. Three sources are cited in the b...
themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...
towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time disagree...
In five pages this paper examines the Age of Enlightenment, such events as the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the impacts ...
In ten pages this trio of philosophers and their philosophies are contrasted and compared. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In thirteen pages philosophy throughout history is the focus of this paper that assesses the views of Ancient Egypt, Hebrews, Indi...
In seven pages this paper examines the 3 Hylas and Philonous dialogues and what they reveal about immaterialism and the philosophi...