Philosophy of perception

personal identity and the self. He believed that the “I” is the body’s way of making sense of the world, but does not actually exist. He instead proposed the idea that the there are two parts of personal identity people inhibit. People are bundles of perceptions and have humanity because we see each other as human. By examining Hume’s ideas, the reader will be able to better understand and contemplate the concepts of the self and personal identity as a whole. Current ideas of personal identity…

is perceived or understood about something; despite this simple denotation, humankind 's capacity to acquire and understand these complex thoughts remains a controversy in philosophical literature. As major role models in the foundation of modern philosophy, Descartes and Locke feud over the definition of these ideas, the acquisition of these concepts, and the content of these thoughts. Descartes identifies with a rationalistic view where knowledge is based on innate ideas and these ideas are…

describes it as ‘present and accessible to the attentive mind’ and ‘distinctly’ is ‘so sharply separated from all other perceptions that it contains within itself only what is clear.’ In this essay, I will closely analyse how Descartes arrived to this rule of perception and will argue that he was not incredibly successful in using it to rebuild all knowledge. The concept of this perception is one that can be rather difficult to comprehend, as Descartes himself was unable to clearly and…

The classical understanding of sense perception in the western tradition dates from Aristotle and his work on “the nature of living things”, discussed in the treatise “De Anima”. In an attempt to manage the cognitive data produced by the experience of the world, perception was divided into the five classical senses visus-sight, auditus-hearing, odoratus-smell, gustus-taste, and tactus-touch, mediated by…

happenings are not even true. What makes a war story true, however, is its ability to show the realities of war, whether through true experiences or fictitious ones. Truth is the root of all of these things, as it is the source of all views and perceptions on life and its happenings. Truth is objective; there is a real, unchangeable truth to every subject or event known to man. Reality shares the same characteristic. Both truth and reality can be differently interpreted by people, but they will…

In “Meditations on First Philosophy: Second Meditation”, Descartes expands upon the doubting originated in the First Meditation, however his doubt is focused on the nature of his being. Descartes argument is that the mind and body are separate things, and that he can only consider himself a thinking thing. In this paper, I will argue that the body is part of the human nature and it is not human nature to be just a mind. Descartes begins his meditation by stating that he previously believed…

In Robots and Minds, William Lycan tries to show that it is feasible that robots can have the same kind of mind that humans do, under the condition that machines are able to have consciousness just like humans. He further expounds this theory by introducing AI, claiming that researchers have already designed machines that can do human-functioning activities (such as reading books, playing chess, etc.) Lycan concludes that all of these actions are considered to be intelligent behavior in human…

Yogācāra is one of the influential schools of Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes ontology through the heart of meditation and literally means the practice of yoga. Additionally, those who follow the Yogācāra are of an idealist approach and deny the existence of the external world, as well as any physical or material realities existing independently of the mind (Bartley, p. 68). The purpose of this paper is to outline three practical approaches to convince sixth century realist opponents that…

Skepticism of Other Minds Some would say to justify a belief in other minds one would need to have the ability to view the subjective experience of another person. But I argue that you can’t prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many…

think to be real is really mental. The logical way to better understand or explain what Idealism is through what I’ve come up with to be five main points, perception, the brain, triparte soul, other aspects, such as god and racism, that will help better understand Idealism and why it works for me in my world. What is perception? Perception is what we see. But to see is something mental and not physical. We can say that what we see is real but in all actuality it simply is a non-physical…