Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...

Brackets iclude professors comments: Moore sought to show that ordinary language contained the truth of common sense by advocating that the words in the language be taken at face value. [The expression "face value" doesn't signify anything exact enough for philosophical purposes; what you mea...

Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Ability or Information Processing Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We rely upon these machines to perform innumerable tasks that we often take for granted. Most people realize that computers are able to perform the multitude...

The existence of God has been a question since the idea of God was conceived Descartes tries to prove God's existence, and to show that there is without a doubt something external to ones own existence. He is looking for a definite certainty, a foundation for which he can base all of his beliefs ...

FUTURE OCCURENCES In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume demonstrates how there is no rational way to make any claims about future occurrences. According to his way of thinking, knowledge of matters of fact comes from previous experience. From building on this rationale, H...

Life or Anti-Life: Nietzsche vs Socrates Nietzsche's charge that Socrates is anti-life appears to be driven merely by disgust and not proven by fact. I say this mainly because the majority of Nietzsche's accusations in "The Problem of Socrates" were eithe...

Descartes second consideration on the existence of God relies on his belief of the certainty of clear and distinct perceptions. In the meditations prior to meditation five Descartes emphasized the truth evoked by everything which is clearly and distinctly perceived. Descartes is able to theorize tha...

How God Does or Doesn't Exist from Descartes and Lockes' Point of View Position or Issue No.1. Ever since the beginning of time, man has raised the same questions over and over again; is there a higher being than us? Is there something immense out there? Could there even be a way f...

Emerson's Optimism: Unrealistic or a Search for Complete Understanding? Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the Terror of Life, and have manned themselves to face it ("Fate"). Some readers, critics especially, believe Ralph Waldo Eme...

Emerson's Optimism: Unrealistic or a Search for Complete Understanding? Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the Terror of Life, and have manned themselves to face it ("Fate"). Some readers, critics especially, believe Ralph Waldo Eme...