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

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

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

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

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...

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

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...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...

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...