René Descartes: The Seeker of Indubitable Truths Kharen Jade Tolentino Reason & Feeling in Modern Philosophy GL PHIL 2620 Prof B. Logan Wednesday‚ October 23‚ 12 Throughout history René Descartes has affected lives of philosophers and their ideas. Not only was René Descartes a well known philosopher he was well known for his application of algebra to geometry which led to the Cartesian geometry. In his Meditations on First Philosophy he attempted to provide philosophical evidence for
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DESCARTES’ COGITO ARGUMENT Discourse‚ Part Four‚ pg. 19 – 20 1. Anything that is the slightest bit open to doubt‚ I reject as completely false. 2. My senses sometimes deceive me therefore they are open to doubt. 3. Everything that comes to me through the senses should be rejected as completely false. (1‚ 2) 4. My reasoning‚ like that of any other human being‚ is fallible and therefore open to doubt. 5. All conclusions that I arrive at by using my reasoning should be
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René Descartes René Descartes has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy"‚ but he was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century‚ and is sometimes considered the first of the modern school of mathematics. As a young man‚ he found employment for a time as a soldier (essentially as a mercenary in the pay of various forces‚ both Catholic and Protestant). But‚ after a series of dreams or visions‚ and after meeting the Dutch philosopher and scientist Isaac Beeckman
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Essay 3: Descartes on the Method of Doubt In the Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we find Descartes at a point trying to suspend all beliefs that he held from his youth by destroying his unstable house of knowledge to build a more concrete foundation of certainty. In an attempt to rid himself of skepticism of his own beliefs‚ Descartes devises the method of doubt to eliminate all his current beliefs that could not possibly be true‚ leaving him only with the things in which he could be certain
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Throughout this essay I will be analysing a sixty second sequence of the film I-Robot. Directed by Alex Proyas‚ the film was released in 2004 and was a hit at the box office. The film is an action-thriller inspired by Isaac Asimov ’s classic short story collection. Asimov ’s books set forth the three laws of robotics. Law 1. A Robot may not injure a human being or‚ through inaction‚ allow a human being to come to harm. Law 2. A Robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where
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which can serve as a gateway for exploring impending issues and fears that society possesses. Alex Proyas’ film i‚Robot is used as an embodiment for this‚ as it depicts the tale of Del Spooner‚ who is trapped in a throw-away society‚ where humans are at a grave danger of being overrun by technological advancements. Throughout the film‚ Spooner befriends a scientist and a unique robot‚ who together‚ work to save society from the consequences of their wasteful habits. The film explores many messages
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Descartes was the first mathematician to use the notation where the letters at the beginning of the alphabet represent data and the letters at the end of the alphabet to represent variables or unknowns. Descartes’ understanding of algebra was deep. He stated that the number of distinct roots of an equation is equal to the degree of the equation. Descartes was willing to consider negative (he called them false roots) and imaginary roots. He developed a rule for determining the number of positive
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and what people (or robots) do with that power. Robots seem to have some power‚ since they are stronger than people‚ but people have a lot of power as their controllers. No matter how strong a robot is‚ it still needs to follow human orders and not harm any humans. Essentially all of the robots life is dictated by the humans‚ which gives humans the ultimate power. In I’Robot the robots have to follow the “Three laws of robotics”. These laws must be followed by all robots as part of their creation
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The story takes place in 2035 Chicago‚ in a world in which robots are commonly seen and used as servants. Del Spooner‚ a Chicago Homicide Detective who believes that robots are a menace to the world‚ is called by a now dead Roboticist which gave him instructions on how to save the world from an impending coup détat by the NS-5 class robots led by a cybernetic entity known as V.I.K.I. Del Spooner‚ another robotics expert‚ and a Robot that has the option to disobey the three laws of Robotics need
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Human views on Robots The world often sees robots as a potential threat to citizens‚ whether through fear of something different or concern about economic risks (Bryfonski 50). However‚ through the words of Asimov in nine compelling short robot stories‚ he showed that human beings often misunderstood the robot actions in various situations. In I‚ Robot‚ Isaac Asimov made use of the short stories to connect the idea of human and robot interactions in this new futuristic civilization to show the
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