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Descartes' Le Monde, 1664 The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology.
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.
Learn about René Descartes' famous treatise on his method of doubt and his famous statement "I think, therefore I am". The web page also covers the book's organization, content, and influence in modern philosophy and science.
Cartesianism is the system of René Descartes and his followers, who emphasized reason and innate ideas over sensory experience. It involves mind-body dualism, ontology, epistemology, and criticism of Aristotelianism and empiricism.
This article traces the development of scientific method from ancient times to the present, highlighting the debates and controversies over rationalism, empiricism, induction, deduction, and realism. It does not answer who invented research, but it shows how different cultures and thinkers contributed to the evolution of scientific inquiry.
Learn about Descartes' metaphor of the tree of knowledge to describe the relations among different parts of philosophy. The tree's roots are metaphysics, its trunk is physics, and its branches are medicine, mechanics and morals.
The wax argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy.He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism.
Inductivism is the traditional view that scientific theories can be derived from facts by inductive reasoning. Learn about its history, challenges, and alternatives from philosophers such as Bacon, Hume, Kant, Mill, Popper, and Kuhn.