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In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

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

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

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

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...

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...

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

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...