For my final research paper I have chosen the following question: How would you define knowledge? Do you agree with Descartes that the mind is the primary source of knowledge (rationalism) or with Hume that sense perception is the primary source of knowledge (empiricism). I have chosen to defend Descartes based on three main reasons. ...
After a year she was chosen as a degree candidate at Cornell University, after winning the prestigious Susan Lynn Sage Fellowship. ... Among her years at Vassar she was a well-liked professor, students commenting, "Miss Washburn's lectures were brilliant, exact, clear, with such a wealth of references and citing of original sources as almost to overwhelm a student...I recall wishing that the course in social psychology would never end, both because of the absorbing fascination of the material, and because of the consummate skill with which she unfolded and developed the theme" (Goodman, ...
The sense that people typically rely on most, sight, is nothing more than light emitting from a source and then reflecting off of another at just the right trajectory as to be funneled into the back of the eye. ... Because nothing can be proven to be true, what people accept as truth must be assumed, and the assumption must be carefully chosen so that it can stand solid. ...
Rudy finally breaks down and tells his big secret that reveals the source of his depression and regret for all these years. ... Ben doesn't even have to explain it when Cody says "I might have done the same thing." (263) because of the similarity of the two brothers, Cody also would have chosen not to speak about his death sentence. ...
Being a Sexual women was a strategy chosen by Jayanthi whereas Alicia was more of a Relational women. ... Nelson gives an example of the hooded prisoner who came as a shock in the first appearance but gradually became a source of humor. ...
2001 Space Odyssey The film segment chosen was the final scene from Stanley Kubrik^s 2001 A Space Odyssey made in 1968. ... The glowing tiles also serve as a source of high contrast to the artworks and old furniture situated throughout the room. ...
So you have chosen the red pill! ... To help me in this journey, I will be relying on a few sources, first being- The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the desert of the Real edited by William Irwin, Philosophy of Technology edited by Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek, and last source I will be citing are my own ideas that have been created in me through viewing the films, reading books on this subject, having discussions concerning the philosophy of the Matrix and similar topics. ... The two ways of distinguishing between the real and unreal worlds-the sources for each and their ontological st...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
