1. Consilience
Computers Can Never Think. To form an opinion on computers and thinking, I think it is important to first form an opinion on thinking itself. Now many people may feel that thinking is merely scientific - the application of facts and figures. I disagree; and therefore went to my dictionary to s...
Descartes suggested that it was possible to perform significant tests, calculate correlations and other quantitative analysis of psychological parameters differently from disciplines like physics. ... Unlike other sciences like physics, these parameters do not need to be physical indicators which could be measured. ...
This universe would be someone else's virtual reality; physics would be the rules set on this universe for order, and we would be the system's artificial intelligence. ... No one can be certain, unless someone appears on this dimension and frees mankind from what may be eternal illusion, or until we find a "loophole" or a "bug" probably in a form of something that will defy every known law of physics, then the Hypothesis of Universal Unreality would be proven true. ...
The mind-body problem is one that entails many different theories. The dilemma revolves around the difficulty of explaining how the mental activities of human beings relate to their living physical activities. There are some who go about solving this by stating that the mind and body do not operate ...
Gestalt Psychology Today By Wolfgang KÖhler In this piece Kohler talks about certain schools of psychology (Especially Behaviorism) and other sciences, while talking about the new theories in Gestalt psychology. He begins by talking about the history of Gestalt psychology and mentions how s...
"Sophie's World," by Jostein Gaarder, is a fictional mystery philosophy novel that narrates the history of philosophy through someone named Albert Knag who is writing a book for his daughter, Hilde Moller Knag, for her fifteenth birthday. The book Albert Knag wrote is about a man named Alberto Knox ...
Rene Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine (France) in March of fifteen ninety-six. During the course of his life, he made many significant contributions to the progress of science, because of these achievements, he is known as the father of modern philosophy. He was a distinguished physicist, phy...
Representative Realism John Locke thought that the ideas or perceptions which we have of objects in the external world partially represent the objects as they are in themselves, and so whether they are being perceived or not. This view of Locke's is called representative realism. The term "realis...
Descartes set out to find and isolate in his mind those things which he could doubt even to the tiniest degree. The purpose of this would seem to be to discover truths which cannot be doubted in any way. He wishes to gain true knowledge and his method of doubt will apparently clear his mind of any s...
Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is that the body is divisible because it can be physically altered like being cut in half. His belief is that the ...
REFLECTION PAPER I Contrary to contemporary thought a skeptic need not necessarily be a negative person. In fact Rene Descartes believes a negative thinking person is the polar opposite of a skeptic, opinions expressed in the negative would lead Descartes to dismiss such person fro...
Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is that the body is divisible because it can be physically altered like being cut in half. His belief is that ...
Romans Did and Greeks Thought Life's milestones have been passed through generations and to different cultures since the beginning of time. From the start, people have been able to put their minds together to come up with new and easier ways to do daily activities. These brilliant and deter...
John B. Watson (1878-1958) And His Contributions to Psychology John Broadus Watson was trained in psychology at the University of Chicago under the functionalist, J.R. Angell(Leahey, 1980). Watson was trained in functionalism, but he rejected the ideas of the functionalist and structura...
Materialism In Western civilization, materialism is the oldest philosophical tradition. It reached its full classical form in the atomism of Democritus and Epicurus in the 4th century BCE. Epicurus argued that reality consisted of invisible and indivisible particles of free-falling matter call...
Colour itself is not a property of the atomic structures of bodies: neither Locke's corpuscularian hypothesis nor the atomic theory of modern physics supposes that the colours we see are properties for the atoms or of collections of atoms" (Landesman, 29). ...
During his studies he came up with a hypothesis: "science may be compared to a tree; metaphysics is the root, physics is the trunk, and the three chief branches are mechanics, medicine, and morals, these forming the three applications of our knowledge, namely, to the external world, to the human body, and to the conduct of life- (Ball, 1995). ...
Donald Davidson: "Mental Events" "Mental Events", by Donald Davidson, defends a view of Token physicalism known as Anomalous Monism. Token physicalism claims that every event that falls under a mental-event kind, also falls under a physical-event kind. According to Davidson, "Anomalous Monism r...
This essay will highlight the roots of psychology and how the different approaches emerged. According to Hothersall (2010), psychology dates back to the Ancient Greeks 700BC. Questions about the universe, our role in it, reasons and causes of all things brought about the roots of psychology. Rene Descartes, Plato and Socrates are among other Greek philosophers who tried to find answers to these questions. These philosophers believed in body-mind duality, that is, body and mind are two separate entities and mind could exist even after death (Raghunathan, 2012). ...
