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beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
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...
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...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...
In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...
being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
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...
Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...
In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...
Those who continue to be exposed to high levels of stress for prolonged periods of time end up being distressed. The authors state...
is located in the brain, shouldnt he be thinking, Im inside looking at my body (Dennett). Unfortunately, he cannot make that switc...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...