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René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART or UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
A philosophical treatise by René Descartes on metaphysics, published in Latin in 1641. It consists of six meditations, in which Descartes tries to establish what can be known for sure, starting from the doubt of everything except his own existence as a thinking thing.
In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, [1] or that the mind and body are distinct and separable. [2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.
Cogito, ergo sum is the Latin phrase meaning "I think, therefore I am", which is the first principle of René Descartes's philosophy. It expresses the idea that the act of doubting one's own existence proves one's own existence as a thinking entity.
Learn about the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and relation of the mind and the body. Explore the main schools of thought, such as dualism, monism, physicalism, and idealism, and the problems they face, such as the hard problem of consciousness.
Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences from true premises. Learn about the logical features, rules, and applications of deductive reasoning, as well as its contrast with ampliative reasoning and psychological theories.
Cognitivism is a theoretical framework for understanding the mind that gained credence in the 1950s. It argues that thinking is essential to psychology and involves information processing, attention, learning, memory, and transfer.
Ethics is a Latin book by Baruch Spinoza that applies Euclid's method to philosophy. It argues that God is the natural world, that the mind and the body are one, and that emotions and passions are determined by the nature of things.