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'Of Identity And Diversity' According to John Locke

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

The Mind in De Anima by Aristotle

a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...

Philosophical Dilemmas of Mind and Body

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

A Mind Body Problem Resolution

something called substance dualism such as the dualism of two different sorts of things like property dualism for example (1995). ...

Rene Descartes and Dualism

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

Twenty First Century Critical Clinical Psychology Issues

discipline of psychology during the next century. One of his beliefs, based on past trends, is that psychology, as a field in gene...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

Intrinsic Association Between the Healing of the Body and Mind

-- 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 ...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Mind-Body Medicine

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Body Image: Journal Articles Overview

to lose weight, media pressure to gain weight, and media pressure to increase muscle tone (McCabe et al, 2003). Both studi...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Chopra/Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

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...

Body and Mind Distinction

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

Answers to Some Questions on Psychology

the belief that low level physiological needs are more compelling in relation to behavior than higher level psychological needs, w...

Rene Descartes, Philosophy and Psychology

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...

Tai Chi and Spirituality

beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...

Impact Of Healthful Eating On Physical And Mental Processes

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...

Vital Impact Neurotransmitters Have Upon Mind And Body

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

Therapeutic Massage Good For Mind And Body

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Contemporary Society and Body Image

In ten pages body image is considered in this overview and examines how culture and media influence body perception along with res...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...