The Concept of Mind

achieves this through a crucial distinction between matters of fact and the relations of ideas, in which he asserts that experience alone is the only certain way to gain substantial knowledge of the world since ideas can be altered or manipulated by the mind and therefore do not truly represent what will happen, but instead what is expected to happen based on prior familiarity. Hume demonstrates his empiricist approach most forcefully in Section X of his work, an essay entitled “On Miracles.”…

skepticism by Descartes, are arguably two of the most influential concepts within rationalism. The formulation of Plato’s work served to fight back the growing influence of fallacious sophism at the time that paid attention to rhetoric and semantics over truth. Similarly, Descartes’ approach of radical skepticism confronted the monopoly of traditional scholastic philosophy that prevailed for centuries before him. Although both concepts are isolated by different periods of time and space, from a…

In the academic institutions of today’s society, educating young minds on issues surrounding equity and diversity not only within education systems but also within the society we as individuals relate to, appears to be an increasing desire among educators and parents. This desire arises from the growing concern that issues involving equity and diversity must be implemented into course curriculum to alleviate concerns that young generations are not given opportunities to learn how to properly…

education process by overcoming authority and throwing out the system. The banking concept is a way that students are positioned like an empty box and to be filled with all kinds of information by the teacher (216). Freire says that the teachers treat the students as a bank in which they deposit information into them. The issue with education is that the student does not get to think for themselves mentally. The banking concept of education assumes that the student is ignorant and basically…

For my base, I will use the concept of pattern recognition from the book “Riveted”. Pattern recognition refers to a cognitive process that connects information from a stimulus with information recovered from memory. Commonly, the recognized patterns can be those apparent in facial features, units of music, and components of language or characters. Pattern recognition does not occur immediately, although it does happen mechanically and instinctively. Pattern recognition is an inherent and inborn…

Only one thing will be certain in the future, and that is mystery. It is this very mystery, this uncertainty about the future that provokes the mind to anticipate and predict based off of previous experiences and encounters. The mere nature of uncertainty forces individuals to actively think and foresee outcomes that will shed light on the matter. In Oliver Sacks’s “The Mind’s Eye,” Sacks introduces blind individuals who seem to be able to interpret their worlds before actually interacting with…

understanding of the mind/body problem typically states that everything we do and say should have a background of knowledge and reason rather than impulse and emotions. All the different types of rationality holds belief that the world is a rationally ordered whole the parts of which are linked by logical necessity and the structure of which is therefore intelligible. Defensibly, rationalist would argue that innate knowledge does not require input of any kind. Empiricists believe that all…

or divine forces”(dictionary.com). This is not true because of the deterministic system of philosophy. The best example of this is shown in the movie Inside Out with the character Riley. The main character in the movie Inside Out is Riley. Riley’s mind is being…

The body, while seemingly clearly definable and understandable, is a concept that humans have struggled to define and understand for much of history. Social conceptions of the mind of spirit shaped philosophers’ understandings of the relationship between the mind and body, as well as attitudes toward the body. In his essay “The Concept of the Body,” Eliot Deutsch presents readers with four popular modes of conceiving of the body. These models, popularized at different points throughout history,…

There has been a recent insurgence of the sexualization of youth and children, more so in females, and this could be attributed largely in part by the media’s disregarding of the developing, highly impressionable mind of the youth influencing them to dress and act more provocatively. It has been literal centuries since children younger than 16 have been thought of and were told to act as women, It isn’t even the youth that are at fault, the pop idols they look up to have a history of over…