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1 day ago · René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART or UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
21 hours ago · René Descartes’ proposed that the mind and the body are two distinct and very different things. This “dualistic” perspective, introduced in the 17th century, continues to shape our assumed knowledge and understanding of the world, paricularly in the West. It also continues to spark debates in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
1 day ago · Philosophy René Descartes, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' rationalist philosophy laid the foundation for enlightenment thinking.
5 days ago · I’m currently teaching on 8-week online course on Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, so his philosophy is often on my mind. This goes especially for some of the key passages of the work that created an impression upon me during one reading or another.
2 days ago · In modern philosophy, René Descartes' famous inquiry into mind and body began as an exercise in skepticism, in which he started by trying to doubt all purported cases of knowledge in order to search for something that was known with absolute certainty. Epistemic skepticism questions whether knowledge is possible at all.
1 day ago · RENÉ DESCARTES 1596–1650. According to my interpretation of Descartes, humans are better off using discipline as a mind exercise. Furthermore, every part of thought requires questioning, doubting, and the creation of logical examples that apply to it.
5 days ago · Others are ghosts from the past, like René Descartes, who wrote that “language is the only certain sign of thought hidden in a body” and arch-behaviourist John B. Watson, who wrote that “one can assume either the presence or the absence of consciousness anywhere … without affecting the problems of behavior by one jot or one tittle ...
