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Sensory Perceptions and Meditations of Rene Descartes

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

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

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

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

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...

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...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

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

Skeptical Challenge and 'Meditation' Argument of Rene Descartes

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

Hypothetical Conversation Between Rene Descartes and David Hume

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

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Melting Beeswax and the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

Epistemology and Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

Wondering About the World in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

God's Existence According to Rene Descartes

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

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 ...

Painter Analogy and the First Meditation of Rene Descartes

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

Meditations of Rene Descartes and Their Implications

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Meditations by Descartes, Skepticism and Science

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

God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....