Philosopher
René Descartes
Overview
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
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Works by René Descartes you can read
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
- Six metaphysical meditations
- Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
- A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences
Philosophers who discussed René Descartes
- Albert Schweitzer
- Francisco Suárez
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Étienne Gilson
- Keiji Nishitani
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Avicenna
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gilles Deleuze
- Harry Frankfurt
- Heraclitus
- Stephen Toulmin
- Isaiah Berlin
- John Locke
- Giambattista Vico
- Constantin Noica
- John Amos Comenius
- David Hartley (philosopher)
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Victor Cousin
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ideas René Descartes discusses
- Simon & Schuster
- Empiricism
- Globe Pequot Publishing Group
- Emotion
- Mind–body problem
- Foundationalism
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Princeton University Press
- Innatism
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Cartesianism
- Western philosophy
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Isaac Newton
- Ancient Greek
- Atheism
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum
- Johannes Kepler
- John Locke
- Cartesian doubt
- Mind–body dualism
- Discourse on the Method
- Latin
- Modernity
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.