PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Jaegwon Kim, Pineal Gland, Melatonin
6 Mar 2014
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Philosophers take the evidence from science and decide what to make of. How should the findings be interpreted: eg. some studies show eating breakfast is good for increasing your metabolism, while others show that there is no effect. What do you do with the evidence and how do you: in descartes time, science was not as advanced as it is interpret it? now. Need to consider arguments that were relevant in the time he was writing. Also think about whether studies done today support this theory. Descartes: born in france (1556-1650, philosopher (metaphysician), mathematician, scientist, major works: discourse on the method, principles of philosophy, and passions of the. Epictetus: very religious and showed this in his philosophical work, descartes believed that mind and body are two distinct substances that are intimately related, mind: mental, non-divisible, non-extended, body: physical, divisible, extendable.
