René Descartes

counter theory to innatism which holds that the mind is not ,what Locke believes to be “blank slate” at birth, but rather, is pre-equipped with certain concepts prior to the sensory experience of them. Some early 17th century innatists include Rene Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who significantly added on to Plato’s original theory of innatism. Hume’s first argument in support of Concept Empiricism…

Firstly there is the question of if we truly could imagine such a thing as a clone and understand there complete inner workings. Descartes argued that we can imagine or clearly and distinctly understand the idea of there being two separate substances, the body and the mind and therefore if we can imagine it then it is possible. This is the same argument used against functionalism, if…

Sociology of Deviance The Division of the Mind, Soul & Body We do not live in a world of our own creation. We live in a world that is made up. In the words of James Baldwin an African American Historian, “People invent categories in order to feel safe.” (Dialogue 88-9) In other words people create associations to loosely say ‘I am not that’ or ‘I am this’, to feel a part of something and have a classification for social order. This notion applies to the body as well. People cannot simply…

Who is Galileo Galilei? Galileo Galilei was a famous physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and philosopher from a very important part of the renaissance called the scientific revolution. He was born on the 15th of February in Pisa, Italy. When he was young his father sent him to school to study medicine at the university of Pisa, but quickly got bored and decided to study mathematics instead. He later became a professor at the university, and went on to discover a lot more about…

For the duration of our lives we need to make many decisions. We give off an impression or illusion of being allowed to pick some strategy. Be that as it may, is this truly so? We use our minds to think and choose. Our mind. However, the mind is a physical article, and the conduct of physical items is entirely governed by the laws of nature. So does that not imply that our purported "choices" are and or have been already chosen for us? In present day science, some identify the issue of human…

The Enlightenment a revolutionary scientific era when philosopher’s contributions to society made an impact on colonial thinking. Among these influential intellectuals were Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Isaac Newton Algernon Sydney, Charles de Montesquieu and Denis Diderot. Throughout The Enlightenment era philosophers new ideas questioned the monarchies and the church who supported them. During the awakening times of The Enlightenment, society began to expand the way of thinking.…

had also invented and introduced the infinity symbol which looks something like this ∞. The symbol found use in treating a series of squares of indivisible. The application of the exponent dates from the 14th century. The French mathematician René Descartes in 1632 first used the symbol a3, but John was the first to demonstrate the utility of the exponent, particularly by his negative and fractional exponents. He also focused on some algebra equations. One of his most complex ones is this e.g.…

The 18th century Age of Enlightenment was an impactful period for Europe because not only was it a time of dynamic change from traditional ways of thinking to new reasoning, but many insightful scholars and philosophers rose with perceptive views on society. One of the most influential people from this era was a man infamous for his critical jabs against the Catholic Church and disapproving remarks about human nature under the pen name of Voltaire. A classic work of his called Candide, which was…

Can we truly see our external world? Am I typing this essay right now? Do I know there is a coffee cup sitting on the table next to my laptop? These are all questions that G.E. Moore attempts to answer in his essay, “Some Main Problems of Philosophy” (Moore 1958). Moore proposes a then-revolutionary idea of “Sense Data,” (28) which represents all the data received through the senses, hence the name “Sense Data.” In this essay, I plan to decipher the nebulous world of Sense Data, and deconstruct…

Sections and Subsections of a Lab Report 
There are four main sections to a lab report and four subsections (Burton, Westen, Kowalski, 2010). 
The first subsection begins with a title. The title will not be too long, it should be less than twelve words and briefly make a statement on what the lab report is about. It also could include the independent and dependent variable. It should have a running head, which is a shortened version of the title continuing on to the following pages in the top…