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Cartesian Dualism and the Union of Mind and Body - Cartesian Dualism and the Union of Mind and Body. . ABSTRACT: Cartesian dualism and the union of mind and body are often understood as conceptions that... :: 3 Works Cited	3105 words (11.3 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Anne Conway?s Critique of Cartesian Dualism - Anne Conway?s Critique of Cartesian Dualism. . . ABSTRACT: I describe and analyze Anne Conway?s critique of Cartesian dualism. After a brief biographical in... :: 2 Works Cited	3234 words (11.8 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
To Resurrect a Ghost - To Resurrect a Ghost. . Cartesian dualism has largely been replaced by empirical theories of the mind. Central to this development is Gilbert Ryle?s criticism of an immaterial ?gh...	3196 words (11.6 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Heidegger's Reading of Descartes' Dualism - Heidegger's Reading of Descartes' Dualism. . . ABSTRACT: The problem of traditional epistemology is the relation of subject to external world. The distinction... :: 3 Works Cited	4349 words (15.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
A challenge to Materialism - Cartesian Dualism Challenged.      In this paper, I will examine the issues of individuation and identity in Descartes? philosophy of mind-body dual...	1120 words (4.1 pages)	Yellow Essays	[preview]
Snake Symbolism in Cleopatra's Suicide Scene - James, Merleau-Ponty, and Nishida. . ABSTRACT: Cartesian philosophy presupposes the legitimacy of body-mind dualism, subject-object dualism, the principle ... :: 5 Works Cited	3036 words (11 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Descartes? Argument from Divisibility - Descartes? Argument from Divisibility. Works Cited Missing. . . Reneì Descartes? treatise on dualism, his Meditations on First Philosophy, is a seminal work in We...	1693 words (6.2 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind - Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind. . . In The Concept of Mind Gilbert Ryle attempts, in his own words, to 'explode the myth' of Cartesian dualism. His primary metho... :: 2 Works Cited	2427 words (8.8 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Quantum Metaphors and the Study of the Mind-Brain - Quantum Metaphors and the Study of the Mind-Brain. . . ABSTRACT: Although much of current neuroscience literature speaks of the mind-brain, most study... :: 11 Works Cited	3532 words (12.8 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Argument of Dualism - Arguments of Dualism. . Dualism is the theory that mind and matter are two distinct things. The main argument for dualism is that facts about the objective external world of parti...	1030 words (3.7 pages)	Yellow Essays	[preview]
Agent Causation & Dualism - Agent Causation & Dualism. . . The discussion of free will and its compatibility with determinism comes down to one?s conception of actions. Most philosophers and physicists... :: 2 Works Cited	1639 words (6 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Are Spinozistic Ideas Cartesian Judgements? - Are Spinozistic Ideas Cartesian Judgements?. . Abstract. . Some commentators of Spinoza maintain that Spinozistic ideas are judgements. I shall call this vi... :: 4 Works Cited	2884 words (10.5 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
The Cartesian Doubt Experiment and Mathematics - The Cartesian Doubt Experiment and Mathematics. . . ABSTRACT: The view that Descartes called mathematical propositions into doubt as he impugned all beli...	3426 words (12.5 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Dualism - Dualism. . .       I believe that the popular or "ghost in the machine" form of. substance dualism best solves the mind body problem. My views in this area have... :: 1 Sources Cited	1005 words (3.7 pages)	Yellow Essays	[preview]
Descartes and Dualism - . . Descartes and Dualism . .   . . "I think therefore I am," the well known quote of Rene Descartes, is the basis of his theory known as dualism.  The intermingling of min...	612 words (2.2 pages)	FREE Essays	[view]
Tractarian Dualism - Tractarian Dualism. . While Wittgenstein?s Tractatus keeps issues of metaphysics and ontology at arm?s length, the world it presents seems altogether monistic in character. In Wittg...	4017 words (14.6 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Dualism - . . Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is ... :: 1 Works Cited	1101 words (4 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
Computational Complexity and Philosophical Dualism - Computational Complexity and Philosophical Dualism. . . ABSTRACT: I examine some recent controversies involving the possibility of mechanical simulat... :: 10 Works Cited	3243 words (11.8 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Unifying Dualism of Women in Society - Unifying Dualism of Women in Society. . Sometimes when traditional arguments cannot be effective because whatís at stake is too threatening, all we have left to ... :: 6 Works Cited :: 2 Sources Cited	4409 words (16 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Fodor's Functionalism - Fodor's Functionalism. . Fodor begins his article on the mind-body problem with a review of the current theories of dualism and materialism. According to dualism, the mind and bo...	1311 words (4.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Cybernetic Immunology - Cybernetic Immunology . . In the traditions of 'Western' science and politics--the tradition of racist, male-dominant capitalism; the tradition of progress; the tradi...	2617 words (9.5 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
What it Means to be a Thinking Reed - What it Means to be a Thinking Reed. . The quotation above, taken from Pascal?s Pensées, seems disparaging of reason. Reason, the cornerstone of the Enlightenment a... :: 3 Sources Cited	2994 words (10.9 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Essay on the Importance of Language in The Tempest - The Importance of Language in The Tempest . .   .    In discussing Derrida's view of Western literature, Geoffrey Hartman writes that "Western tradit... :: 5 Sources Cited	1312 words (4.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Postmodernism in Latin America - Postmodernism in Latin America. . . Postmodernism is the 19th and 20th century reaction against the previously dominant western foundationalism, or modernism. Foundation... :: 4 Works Cited	713 words (2.6 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
Descartes' Meditations - Descartes' Meditations. . . In Descartes? meditations, Descartes begins what Bernard Williams has called the project of ?pure enquiry? to discover an indubitable premise or foun...	2133 words (7.8 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein - Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. . . ABSTRACT: Phenomenology and logical positivism both subscribed to an empirical-verifiability criterion of... :: 6 Works Cited	3604 words (13.1 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Descartes? Ultimate Purpose of the Meditations - Descartes? Ultimate Purpose of the Meditations. . . My initial approach to René Descartes, in Meditations on First Philosophy, views the thir... :: 3 Works Cited	1766 words (6.4 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Humanities - The Heart of Liberal Education - Humanities - The Heart of Liberal Education. . . I justify the humanities by sketching four views of knowledge in which the idea of an academy or an integratio...	3336 words (12.1 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Seditious Suspicion: Toward a Hermeneutics of Resistance - Seditious Suspicion: Toward a Hermeneutics of Resistance. . In his book Freud and the Philosophers, the hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur coined the ... :: 8 Sources Cited	4050 words (14.7 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Rene Descartes' Impact on the Scientific Method - Rene Descartes' Impact on the Scientific Method. . . People have always thought about the world around them. Through the centuries they have wondered a... :: 3 Works Cited	914 words (3.3 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
How Private Must an Objectionably Private Language Be? - How Private Must an Objectionably Private Language Be?. . . ABSTRACT: Some philosophers, taking their cue from Philosophical Investigations (PI) ... :: 4 Works Cited	3244 words (11.8 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
Philosophical Works and The Meaning of Reality - Philosophical Works and The Meaning of Reality. . I would put the texts in the following order:. . William James - Some Problems of Philosophy . Rene Des...	1389 words (5.1 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
Early Sartre: Unsatisfactory Account of Alterity - Early Sartre: Unsatisfactory Account of Alterity. . ABSTRACT: This paper critically examines the way in which Sartre dealt with the problem of alterity... :: 5 Works Cited	7833 words (28.5 pages)	FREE Essays	[view]
Lycius' Dilemma - Lycius' Dilemma. . The Master and Margarita and Lamia are the vastly different works of two men from far flung times and places. Though the histories and plots of these works diverge, ... :: 3 Sources Cited	2035 words (7.4 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
It?s All in the Mind - It?s All in the Mind . . What is a mind? How is it related to a body? Descartes answer was substance dualism. A person consists of an immaterial substance (mind/soul) attached to ... :: 3 Works Cited	2576 words (9.4 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Fanon and de Beauvoir: Opposing Discrimination - Fanon and de Beauvoir: Opposing Discrimination. . . All modern (i.e. post-paleolithic) religions contain the "Gnostic trace" of distrust or even outright...	2658 words (9.7 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Appearance versus Reality in Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy - Appearance versus Reality in Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy. . . Bertrand Russell's method of approaching his ... :: 1 Works Cited	493 words (1.8 pages)	Yellow Essays	[preview]
Response to George Berkeley?s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous - A Response to George Berkeley?s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. . . The following essay is a response to Geor...	1021 words (3.7 pages)	FREE Essays	[view]
Giambattista Vico and the Pedagogy of 'Heroic Mind' in the Liberal Arts - Giambattista Vico and the Pedagogy of 'Heroic Mind' in the Liberal Arts. . ABSTRACT: Vico's concept of the Heroic Mind forms the... :: 9 Works Cited	3117 words (11.3 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
The Philosophy of Cognitive Science - The Philosophy of Cognitive Science. . Psychophysical dualism ? the distinction between mind and body ? is the counterposition between essentially irreducible eleme... :: 5 Works Cited	2160 words (7.9 pages)	Research Papers	[preview]
Serious Errors within Rene Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy - Serious Errors within Rene Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy. . . One of Rene Descartes? major culminations in Meditation... :: 3 Works Cited	1094 words (4 pages)	Purple Essays	[preview]
Mathematical Models of Spacetime in Contemporary Physics and Essential Issues of the Ontology of Spacetime - Mathematical Models of Spacetime in Contemporary Physics and Essential Issues of the Ontology...	3252 words (11.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Xenotransplantation and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation - Xenotransplantation and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation. . . ABSTRACT: The ecofeminist critique of dualism is applied to a consideration o... :: 2 Works Cited	3511 words (12.8 pages)	Term Papers	[preview]
On the Temporal Boundaries of Simple Experiences - On the Temporal Boundaries of Simple Experiences. . . ABSTRACT: I argue that the temporal boundaries of certain experiences ? those I call ?simple expe...	2703 words (9.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Mao's Cultural Revolution - Mao's Cultural Revolution. . . Dressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked powerful, ...	2649 words (9.6 pages)	FREE Essays	[view]
Sartre and the Rationalization of Human Sexuality - Sartre and the Rationalization of Human Sexuality. . . ABSTRACT: Sartre rationalizes sexuality much like Plato. Rationalization here refers to the way...	2690 words (9.8 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Great Religions And Philosophies. : Greek Philosophy. - Great Religions and Philosophies. : Greek Philosophy.. . .      In the 6th century B.C, there began a dualism in Greek Phil... :: 1 Sources Cited	898 words (3.3 pages)	Yellow Essays	[preview]
Responses to the Doctrine of Mind-Brain Identity - Responses to the Doctrine of Mind-Brain Identity . . . . To be in pain is, for example, is to have one's c-fibres, or more likely a-fibres, firing in t...	2365 words (8.6 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
On Tanabe's Logic of Species - On Tanabe's Logic of Species. . Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), another pole of the so-called Kyoto-School of Philosophy of modern Japan, attempts to construct a dialectical, t...	3184 words (11.6 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Descartes? Daydream and the Mind-Body Problem - Descartes? Daydream and the Mind-Body Problem. . After exhorting us to wake up from our ?daydreaming? and revolutionize our modality of thought to that of...	3173 words (11.5 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]
Use of Duality in Alfred Hitchcock?s Shadow of a Doubt - Use of Duality in Alfred Hitchcock?s Shadow of a Doubt. . Alfred Hitchcock?s Shadow of a Doubt utilizes dualism to express the juxtaposition of g...	391 words (1.4 pages)	Orange Essays	[preview]
Ontological Relativism and the Pragmatic Notion of Metaphysical Truth - Ontological Relativism and the Pragmatic Notion of Metaphysical Truth. . ABSTRACT: . . I. Introduction. . The mind body problem re...	2267 words (8.2 pages)	Blue Essays	[preview]

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