René Descartes (/ deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART, also / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; [2][3] French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he ...
Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Though somewhat technical, this is a very good biography of Descartes’ intellectual development emphasizing his early years and his interests in mathematics and science. Kenny, Anthony, Descartes: A Study of His Philosophy, New York: Random House, 1968.
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European Union’s Descartes Prize is open to all fields of scientific endeavour, including the social sciences. Since its creation, the Prize has attracted trans-national research projects of high ...
Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, generally regarded as the founder of modern Western philosophy. He is known for his epistemological foundationalism as expressed in the cogito (‘I think, therefore I am’), his metaphysical dualism, and his rationalism based on innate ideas of mind, matter, and God.
Rene Descartes | Biography, Ideas, Philosophy, ‘I Think, Therefore I Am ...
René Descartes (1596–1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or “natural philosopher” second, and a metaphysician third. In mathematics, he developed the techniques that made possible algebraic (or “analytic”) geometry. In ...
René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, natural scientist, and philosopher, best known by the phrase 'Cogito ergo sum' ('I think therefore I am'). He published works on optics, coordinate...