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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.
Clearly, a good deal rides on a satisfactory solution to the problem of mental causation [and] there is more than one way in which puzzles about the mind's "causal relevance" to behavior (and to the physical world more generally) can arise. [René Descartes] set the agenda for subsequent discussions of the mind–body relation.
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 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.
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.
Cartesianism is the system of René Descartes and his followers, who emphasized reason and innate ideas over sensory experience. It involved mind-body dualism, ontology, epistemology, and criticism of Aristotelianism and empiricism.
Cartesian doubt is a systematic process of doubting all beliefs to find certain knowledge, based on the writings and methodology of René Descartes. It involves using arguments such as the dream and the evil demon to question sense data and rationalism, and concluding that only the self-evident "I think, therefore I am" is indubitable.
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.