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    Assignment of Theories of Language Description Title John Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Submitted to: Mr. Waseem Hassan Submitted by: Ali Furqan Syed Class: MPhil (1st Semester) LAHORE INSTITUTE OF FUTURE EDUCATION LAHORE

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    In the Artwork The Light of Coincidences‚ Rene Magritte utilizes space‚ balance‚ and high contrast to expose a quiet and eerie feel of the two-dimensional composition. Magritte‚ a Belgian artist‚ created this oil painting in the year 1933 . It is currently located in the James H. and Lillian Clark Galleries of Twentieth Century Art at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas‚ Texas. The work is small in scale‚ roughly two feet on each side with a gold distressed frame‚ and is made up of just three objects

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    space time‚ matter‚ force -empiricism (passive mind‚ induction) -Francis Bacon (scientific method‚ idols of tribe‚ cave‚ marketplace‚ theater‚ naturalistic approach to dreams) -rationalism (active mind acts upon sensory‚ deductive) -mechanism -Descartes (systematic doubt‚ “I think therefore I am”‚ nativists‚ dualist‚

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    Materialist accounts of the mind are often explicit rejections of the substance dualist or Cartesian theory of the mind. I will first present the core argument of substance dualism and lay out a series of phenomenon which substance dualism successfully explains‚ including first person experiences and the problem of qualia. Next‚ I will present how substance dualism’s solutions for these phenomena trump how materialist Gilbert Ryle’s theory of category mistakes attempts to solve them. Finally‚ in

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    105 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLIDE 2 DESCARTES (1596-1650) “I THINK; THEREFOR I AM” THE ONTILOGICAL ARGUMENT: A method of proof which uses intuition and reason alone; examines the concept of God‚ and states if we can conceive of the greatest possible being‚ then it must exist. Speaker Notes: Descartes had strong belief in dualism; meaning that one possess materialistic and non-materialistic form such as body and soul

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    mind is then capable of controlling our bodily movement. According to Carlson this fascinating interaction occurs in the pineal body located on the top of the brain stem. Modern view supports some of the ideas from the past; those of Muller and Descartes. The behavioral neuroscience of today is rooted in important developments of the past (Carlson 10). We have accepted that there is absolutely a connection between psychology(mind) and physiology(body). The understanding of how the information is

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    Self and Moral Responsibility

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    The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir‚ Cambridge University Press. 2002‚ p. 33. Schroeder William Ralph‚ Sartre and His Predecessors The Self and The Other‚ Routledge & Kegan Paul‚ 1984‚ p. 2. John Cottingham‚ The Cambridge Companion to Descartes‚ Cambridge University Press‚ 1992 ‚ p. 143. Sheldon P. Pterfreund and C. Theodore Denise‚ Contemporary Philosophy and Its Origins‚ D. Van Nostrand Company Ltd.‚ 1967‚ p. 195. M. Merleau-Ponty‚ The Phenomenology of perception‚ trans. C. Smith‚ Routledge

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    In the 17th century‚ Descartes presented the philosophy of Cartesian Dualism‚ with the trademark of “I think therefore I am”. Cartesian Dualism is fundamentally saying that the mind‚ which is an active substance‚ and the body‚ a passive substance‚ combine to make the living human. Thus‚ believing that the mind directly and absolutely affects the body‚ and any physical variation that may occur‚ while also believing that the body and physical aspects can have an affect on the mind. In Franz Kafka’s

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    Searle's View On Dualism

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    1. These two scientists had quiet different point of view on dualism. Descartes believed that mental and physical are to different substances that result in the appearance of substance dualism. At the same time‚ Searle thought that such aspects as physical and mental create the single substance which results in the appearance of the issue of dualism. 2. George Berkeley and Thomas Hobbes were interested in the investigation of the main aspects of the functioning of mind. Berkeley stated that the

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    will provide reasons to believe the Zombie argument by contrasting it with Cartesian Dualism and finally this essay will draw a conclusion that will state whether the Zombie Argument succeeds in falsifying Cartesian Dualism. Cartesian Dualism is Descartes’ concept of dualism which states that physical and mental events belong to two different substance; the mind is immaterial and the body is material and all people possess this dual nature “I thought of the Queen and I saluted” there is the mental

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