The Concept of Mind

Understanding. Kant attempted to respond to Hume’s ideas and in this essay, I will identify the Hume’s beliefs behind the concepts such as cause, and effect and I will later defend Kant’s response to Hume. He raises points that leave his reader with a deeper understanding of his concept and explicitly outlines his beliefs on the concepts that Hume covers in his Human Inquiry. One of the main concepts that Hume is known for is his idea of causality and the problem of induction. Hume believed…

individuals have no control over their own minds. This is evident in Orwell's 1984 through Ingsoc regime's philosophy on thought control where people don't have freedom of thought. Another example is Stanley's criticism on 1984 where he illustrates that by controlling what is in the minds of people, government puts individuals in a state of unconsciousness which abuses them as mindless machines. Moreover, in North Korea and ISIS the manipulation of children's mind proves that these children lose…

them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment”. Zen is a concept that is extremely hard to understand because it cannot be taught even the masters cannot…

Jessica Hernandez PHI 16 Chatham Lovette October 30, 2017 Nietzsche Prompt 1 Philosophy: An Illness of the Mind One of the most provocative thinkers in Western philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche challenges previous philosophies to be an illness of the mind. He argues that their suffering led them to uphold objective truths as a cure to their illness, which doesn’t in fact help them regain their health. Nietzsche argues that philosophers and religious thinkers are not all that different when it…

The concepts of whiteness and blackness, which are on opposite ends of a dichotomy, can not exist without one another. In bell hooks’ article, Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, she argues that in the mind of a black individual, whiteness represents fear and dread. This fright is stemmed from the idea of the predominance of the white race in society. (hooks, 345-346.) The article continues on to discuss which group of people constructed the idea and context of whiteness, what it…

not realize was so informative in my life. I have already related the new learned concepts to my past, present, and future. I learned concepts that I was already aware of but now a more in depth version of itself. Concepts that have helped me through this journey of learning was the assignments, videos, and discussions inside/ outside of the classroom. All of the following has helped me breach a new part of my mind and perspective that I was unaware of. Hence, each has taught me to think outside…

currently, and may never, find themselves satisfied solely with scientific discoveries and theories. It the philosopher’s role to analyse the basis of concepts postulated by different academic perspectives, whilst forming the foundations on which both those subjects and our entire worldly experience can operate. One such example of this is the concept of being human, in particular the moral…

Mental Marriage The short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, represents the relationship between the nineteenth century concept of marriage and the deterioration of the narrator’s mental health. Throughout the story, the narrator’s husband, John, continuously keeps tabs on her and controls the majority of her actions. The imbalance of power between John and herself was not uncommon for a nineteenth century marriage. According to the narrator, she and her husband John were “mere ordinary people”…

Critical Analysis of the Extended Mind The concept of extended cognition is introduced in Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ article “The Extended Mind”. In it, Clark explains that the idea of extended cognition deals with the notion that external objects and interactions play a major role in helping the cognitive process. In this essay, I will critically examine Clark’s idea of extended cognition and how it pertains to real life technologies. Introducing this concept, Clark begins by asking…

Regarding the mind and body, we cannot say that materialism is correct because there is nothing to prove that the mind is not its own entity. Rather, the Cartesian Dualism view is a possible alternative as the mind is dependent on the body and vice versa. Paul Churchland raises several arguments against dualism and in order to evaluate his objections, it is crucial to understand the concepts of substance dualism as well as its opposite, materialism, and how they differ from one another.…