Rene Descartes starts his First meditation with the description of false beliefs, which are common for everyone since early years. He writes that in order to build firm basis of scientific knowledge one has to doubt every uncertain belief he has. From the very beginning Descartes writes that it&ap...

A major source of these generative ideas was an intellectual movement that was neither a religion or philosophy nor a literary theory, although it had elements of all three. Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our world, and ...

Psychologists Challenge Ethics of Marketing to ChildrenAn Ethnographer would react to this article by saying it is wrong to manipulate children's thoughts for advertising. The reason why, being that children are so easy to manipulate. Easy things such as colors, cool looking pictures, or neat chara...

Gulliver´s Travels.Gulliver is looking at various science and technological reasoning. He is out to expose the practical philosopher, who like the abstract philosopher fails. There are many not so exciting projects going on, and the project I liked the most in terms of stupidity is to make gun-po...