Essays about: "descartes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word descartes.

1. 1. Ecology From Within: Ecocriticism and Allegory in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Joel Fransson; [2019-01-08]
   Keywords : ecology; nature; allegory; dualism;

   Abstract : This essay reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest to explore whether there is a connection between Cartesian dualism, allegorical reading, and environmentalist thought. To answer this the essay employs the philosophy and theoretical writings of Timothy Morton, namely The Ecological Thought and Ecology Without Nature. READ MORE

3. 2. Annihilating the Cartesian Divide : Finding the Inhuman in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Rasmus Rosquist; [2019]
   Keywords : Annihilation; Bataille; Colebrook; Descartes; inhuman; natureculture; posthumanism;

   Abstract : As posthumanist discourse attempts reposition the human as one of many subjects in relation to ecologies and other inhuman agencies, doing away with a Cartesian human exceptionalism is one of the key problems. From Haraway’s naturecultures, positing human culture as one of many, to Colebrook’s discussions of inhuman agencies, what ‘the human’ means to us is the heart of this theoretical field. READ MORE

4. 3. Formation and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation

   Author : Johan Appelgren; [2019]
   Keywords : protoplanetary disk; protoplanetary disk formation; protoplanetary disk evolution; planet formation; Physics and Astronomy;

   Abstract : A star forms with a surrounding protoplanetary disk after the collapse of a molecular cloud core. Subsequently, over a period of several Myr this protoplanetary disk of dust and gas is accreted onto the host star. We model the formation and evolution of such a protoplanetary disk using a one-dimensional numerical model. READ MORE

5. 4. What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth

   University essay from Konstfack/Keramik & Glas

   Author : Petter Rhodiner; [2018]
   Keywords : Nature; History; plaster; Garden Folly; Ruin; Sledging;

   Abstract : In this project I look at our relationship to Nature and how it is expressed in western material culture.  I propose that this relationship is ambivalent and paradoxical and seek means to make this evident. READ MORE

6. 5. The "hard problem" of consciousness is a dead end

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Torbjörn Skytt; [2014]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Consciousness and the feeling of existence have yet not been fully explained. There are interesting arguments from panpsychist as well as from eliminative materialistic (neuroscientific) positions. READ MORE