Starting with René Descartes’s sharp separation of mind and matter ... but they do at any rate contribute to our view of things and to the evaluation of the facts. They till the soil of world views, ...
Animal rights
The French philosopher Rene Descartes, and many others ... have any rights - or indeed any moral consideration at all. This view comes originally from the Bible, but probably reflects a basic ...
Five philosophical concepts you didn't know you knew
According to Dr Whittle, Bentham took the simple view that well-being is “the absence ... you into the mindset of French philosopher René Descartes. In his search for certainty in the world ...
Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans
To René Descartes in the 17th century ... The challenge, then, becomes finding a way of thinking about animal minds that doesn’t simply view them as like the human mind with the dials turned down: ...
The Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey & Descartes
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs begins by comparing the views of William Harvey (1578-1657) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650 ... of Harvey's views and shows how his view, ...
History Standards
the significance of the principles of the scientific method advanced by Francis Bacon and Renè Descartes; the trial of Galileo and arguments and evidence used to prove him "innocent" or "guilty ...
Marx and the Threat of Inequality
Marx got more votes than influential philosophers Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes as well as famous ... Taking a global view of things, Robert Shiller, the 2013 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics ...
Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche
This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers ... From this Nietzschean perspective, Francis Bacon and ...
Exorcizing the animal spirits: Jan Swammerdam on nerve function
This was a huge step forward from Galen's view, but within three years of publication, Descartes' fundamental hypothesis of the bases of behaviour lay in tatters. This was due to the decisive ...
Is Hypovitaminosis D one of the Environmental Risk Factors for Multiple Sclerosis?
France 2 Service d'explorations fonctionnelles, Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université René Descartes (Paris V), Paris, France ...
Therapeutic Dendritic-Cell Vaccine for Simian AIDS
Université René Descartes (Paris V), Paris, France, 3 Laboratory of Pathology and Virology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Guangzhou, P. R. China The authors declare they have no competing interests.
Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans
To René Descartes in the 17th century ... becomes finding a way of thinking about animal minds that doesn’t simply view them as like the human mind with the dials turned down: less intelligent ...
