René Descartes

Hobbes went to Florence and became a debater in philosophic groups in Paris that was ran by Marin Mersenne. Once Hobbes became a debater he considered himself a philosopher and a scholar (Wikipedia). Hobbes traveled to France and met mathematics Rene Descartes and Pierre Gassendi (Biography). In France, Hobbes went and devoted his life to studying the system of life. Hobbes first study in France was the physical doctrine of motion and physical momentum. He studied the physical phenomena in terms…

Attacking the Status Quo Descartes’ Dualism and Material Realism Since Rene Descartes alienated reality into two separate realms, of mind and matter, many philosophers have endeavored to rationalize the capacity of human consciousness within Cartesian dualism. Science, or more precisely quantum physics, have introduced persuasive reasons to be skeptical of a dualistic philosophy as being conceivable. In order for the realms of mind and matter to interact, physics claims that an exchange of…

Are ideas innate or not? First, I will present the debate on innate ideas as argued by Descartes on the affirmative, and John Locke on the negative. Descartes view that we do indeed have innate ideas which comes from his mediations concerning the idea of god. While Locke would argue that we do not have innate ideas and that is rooted in his belief that all knowledge is a result of our experiences. Descartes was a French philosopher who was a rationalist. Rationalists believe that all ideas…

Descartes reasons for doubting his beliefs in meditations were because he wanted to prove a scientific method, he wanted to prove that true knowledge came from the mind and not in the sense. Descartes spent a lot of time separating the world into two substances using only the mind and body. He says science truth is made up of our body and religious truths deal with the soul and mind. His biggest question was can something be true if it can be doubted? He became a skeptic and started doubting…

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, by Timothy Brook, sets out to explain how the world was transformed during the seventeenth century through a growing world market and expanding globalization between civilizations and cultures that either had not have contact or limited contact in the past. The book is organized into eight sections, each corresponding to a different piece of art created by Johannes Vermeer and other artists. Each of these sections covers a…

The Rights of women have definitely evolved over the past centuries. Women went from being treated as an object, not a person, to gaining many rights. They have evolved to be entitled to the right to vote, the right to work, the right to own land, and the basic fundamental rights that men have received. As the world becomes more modernized, women still want more rights, they want to be treated as an equal to men. In the United States, women want equal pay in the work force as men, when their…

The novel “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding is set on a remote island in the pacific ocean. The island is a paradise, with almost constant perfect weather. It is also stuffed with tropical fruits and animals for food, and the best part, there are no adults on the island. There was four main kids on an island, in mostly good health. Although they had a perfect start on a dream island, it soon turned to chaos. As Thomas Hobbes had predicted, if humans have freedom and choice to do whatever…

3) While Cartesian dualism says that there are two different mental and physical entities that make up the mind, functionalism argues that the brain is an independent entity. Functionalism says that the brain – a singular entity – contains two kinds of properties, mental and physical. Thus, it is a form of dualism in the sense that there are two different things in play, yet only one physical entity which these properties reside in. It solves the causal relation problem that Cartesian dualism…

substance dualism stems from his famous one-liner, “I think, therefore I am.” In this statement, Descartes thinks and knows that he exists. He attributes his self, “I”, as being rooted in his mind, and he perceives his existence extended and apart from other things in his body, i.e. his body is not everything around him, but rather a biological machine extended in a certain amount of space. Descartes thinks that because a mind and body can be understood separate from each other that they can…

The definition of caveman logic according the Caveman Logic by Hank Davis is a reference of a more superstitious and primitive part of our mentality (Davis, 2009 p.12). Therefore, I want to talk about my own case of caveman logic mentality that happened back in 2012 in Boston on April 15. In addition, I also want to talk about the cognitive error that occurred. Therefore, I can analyze them in the following essay. On that day two bombs went off around the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I…