Assuming I completely embrace Descartes' thinking in regard to reality as strictly a matter of perception, I face an inevitable dilemma. In simple terms, I must envision a way of being and living removed from the ideological foundations upon which I have always relied. The acceptance, however, demands the altered...

In his essay “Five Steps from Novice to Expert”, Hubert Dreyfus makes the distinction between knowledge and practice. In short, his opening claim is that to know something is not the same as to know how to do something. This claim has two meanings. Firstly, it means that knowing how...

This paper focuses on the reflection of reality in human mind as it was seen and reflected upon by numerous philosophers, starting with Plato, through Rene Descartes and to modern philosophers, including Hilary Putnam. The works of the latter are recognizable by a modern person through a movie, called “Matrix....

When pondering if people always do what they desire most, the initial answer would be that yes, most people do. Although it would seem to be a fairly easy assumption, it is not as cut and dried as it would seem. There is a difference between people desiring to do...

Process philosophy is a branch of philosophy which asserts that all aspects of reality are subject to change, and that there is no facet of reality which can be considered to be static. In many regards, process philosophy has impacted the United States government in myriad ways, including its approach...