Self-perception theory

In Berkeley 's third dialogue, Hylas discusses the implications of the first two dialogues. Berkeley expands upon self knowledge first. Philonous states, “I do nevertheless know, that I who am a spirit or thinking substance, exist as certainly, as I know my ideas exist. Fatherer, I know what I mean by the terms I and myself.” Even though, Philonous states the words myself and I, he does not explain to Hyas what they actually mean. However, Philinois does share what the mind is and, states…

spirits of the body to produce voluntary actions….”(11) Descartes has especially noted in the second meditation that body do not have the “power of self-movement.”(81) This shows substance dualism theory fail to provide an explanation for mind and body interact. However, later in Descartes’ responds to Elizabeth, he tried to explain and complete his theory by listing three different common notions for the body, soul and their union respectively. He claims that people who believe the mind and the…

At the core of Descartes’ Meditations is the question about truth in our world, specifically what can we definitively know/perceive to be true and how do we arrive at this conclusion. When he reaches the end of his second meditation Descartes establishes that while there is uncertainty in the way we perceive things because of our senses, the intellect can still understand the most fundamental aspects of that thing to affirm its existence. Most importantly, he concludes that his own mind is the…

The term epistemology is the theory of knowledge of how it is attained and confirmed, and it is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. One of the most influential philosophers of epistemology is David Hume. He is also a skeptic who believes that many people are conceived by the things they think they know which fails them to perceive the truth. In the following, I will be explaining about how Hume argue against religion using objection to the cosmological argument…

Don Delillo, the author of White Noise, wrote an incredible story about the invention of plots, and explains how naming things correlates with the idea of certainty and uncertainty. He does this through the main character of the novel, Jack Gladney, along with other characters that are in Jack’s life, such as his friend and co- worker, Murray Jay Siskind, a neuroscientist and another co-worker, Winnie Richards, and the creator of Dylar, Willie Minks. White Noise teaches us that naming things are…

of mind is to restrict the joy one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human connection. In her essay “Great…

I would go on to say that dualism is the most likely the theory I would consider. I say this because the unknown attributes that they were not aware of at the time and the attributes of mind we haven yet figured out. I don’t see how we can just be one and not many. Consider Princess Elisabeth’s objections that…

especially in his First Meditation, condemns the ability of sensation to provide information about the natural world and humans’ surroundings. Although he believes that humans must trust their senses to understand the obvious, he believes that not all perceptions can be trusted as bodily senses can be deceptive to internal understanding. However, a problem arises: how can one contemplate everything that is perceived around them as false? Certainly, unknown truths must reside in experiences not…

believed to be a female dominant condition due to X-chromosome passed traits, research is finding that synesthesia has equal dispersion among the binary genders and are passed generationally. Recognition of the condition is derived from a synaesthete self-reporting…

voluntary deceit, and murderous action. Psychodynamic theory, in correlation to object-relations therapy, could be employed to identify, and…