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Dioptrique is a treatise by René Descartes on the nature and properties of light, published in 1637. It contains his famous Law of Refraction, based on models of light as a stick, a wine vat, and a tennis ball.
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.
Rules 13–24 deal with what Descartes terms "perfectly understood problems", or problems in which all of the conditions relevant to the solution of the problem are known, and which arise principally in arithmetic and geometry. Rules 25–36 deal with "imperfectly understood problems", or problems in which one or more conditions relevant to the ...
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.
Interactionism was propounded by the French rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), and continues to be associated with him. Descartes posited that the body, being physical matter, was characterized by spatial extension but not by thought and feeling, while the mind, being a separate substance, had no spatial extension but could think and feel. [2]
A philosophical treatise by René Descartes on the nature and function of the passions, or emotions, as natural phenomena. Descartes explores the relationship between the body and the soul, the six basic passions, and the role of reason in controlling them.
Cartesianism is the system of René Descartes and his followers, who emphasized reason and innate ideas over sensory experience. It influenced many thinkers in the 17th and 18th centuries, but also faced criticism and opposition.
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.