René Favaloro

In the Correspondence, Princess Elizabeth questions how the mind, which has no mass and no physical properties can "determine bodily spirits to perform voluntary actions" (Page 217). She wants to know exactly how thoughts in a mind can perform actions through a physical body and believes there is a problem with Descartes' logic. Descartes starts out by saying there are two facts about the human mind that all knowledge depends on: 1. it thinks and 2. by being united to the body it can act and be acted

Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898 in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, he was the oldest child and his father was a wealthy manufacturer. In 1910 at age 12 he started taking drawing lessons and in 1912 his mother had committed suicide by drowning herself in the river. The legend says that Magritte was present when they had removed her body was retrieved and is said to be the source of several of Magritte’s painting in 1927 to 1928 of people’s clothing covering

The argument of the two articles is that substance dualism (sometimes aka Cartesian Dualism) is not a viable theory. Substance dualism is the theory that the immaterial mind and the material body are separate substances with independent existences. The authors shined light on how substance dualism has flaws and how the substantial soul cannot exist distinct from the physical body. In the article “A Buddhist take on Gilbert Ryle’s Theory of Mind”, author Chien-Te Lin used Ryle’s views, along with

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher who was lived from the year’s 1596 to1650. He was of the Jesuit background and was a devout Catholic. He was trained as a lawyer and then believed that he could find knowledge from other people around the world, thus changing his vocation to becoming a soldier in the army to do so. He then felt unfulfilled and believed that the knowledge that he was seeking was from within himself. He asked himself questions like: how do we know things? What can we be certain

Rene Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period is a book authored by Margaret Atherton. The book is an important selection from the largely unknown writings of women philosophers of the early modern period. Among the most notable ones is a writing that involves Descartes and Elisabeth. Using this book, the paper seeks to answer various questions. It will discuss what Elisabeth is asking Descartes to clarify, and what his response is. Besides, the paper

Monica Garcia Phil. 105 – 02 Response Paper #3 Spira on Descartes In “The Transparency of Things”, Rupert Spira tackles different philosophies surrounding consciousness. I would like to say that Spira would look upon Descartes’ project unfavorably. I believe this to be the case, because of their different views on human certainty, the argument between being awake and dreaming, and their overall values. Descartes believes that we have human certainty by being a thinking thing. He sees himself as

In objection to Descartes’ reasoning behind his attempt to establish that what is true, is clear and distinct perception, Antoine Arnauld argues his reasoning is circular. Before explaining why circularity is evident, I will first consider what Descartes’ ‘truth rule’ really consists of. After establishing ‘cogito ergo sum’, Descartes uses the same logical terminology in which the cogito was established, to attempt to find other truths in the external world. However, as the is no causality between

Descartes’s conception of the self and how the self relates to the body started with how Descartes viewed the self in Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes wanted to start a new foundation with philosophy and so he used reason to find truths that were unboubtful. Since sense data can deceive you, Descartes could not trust things he saw, heard, or felt. “I have noticed that the sense are sometimes deceptive; and it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived

In Meditations II Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy changed the landscape of Western Philosophy by stating: ‘cogito ergo sum – I think, therefore I am’. Now referred to as Descartes’ Cogito argument. The introduction of the cogito would go on to not only immortalize Descartes but also solidify his status as a pioneer of human thought. However, over time many modern day philosophers have begun to question the merit of Descartes’ Cogito argument. Much of the argument’s criticism draws

In the 6th meditation, Rene Descartes argues that “mind” and “body” are two “clear” and “distinct” objects. This school of thought is popularly known as “Cartesian Dualism” in the fields of philosophy and psychology. In this essay I will present the arguments proposed by Descartes in the 6th Meditation and thereafter provide counterarguments to his claims and thus, finally draw a conclusion based on the arguments. Descartes argues that mind and body are clear and distinct objects. But what do we