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This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

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

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...