There is a lot to be said for René Descartes’s little book Discourse on Method for Rightly Conducting Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences. Although published in the 17th-century, it is in ...
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I do not think, therefore I am
Descartes’ famous phrase “I think, therefore I am” (cogito, ergo sum) has been the subject of immense discussion in modern ...
In 1758, Claude-Adrien Helvétius argued, “All judgment is nothing more than a sensation,” and he was far from alone in this conviction. Eighteenth-century philosophers on all ends of the spectrum, ...
Richard Franks explains how Cartesian ideas influence the way we think and behave today By Richard Francks The work of René Descartes (1596-1650) played an important part in what historians used to ...
In 1758, Claude-Adrien Helvétius argued, “All judgment is nothing more than a sensation,” and he was far from alone in this conviction. Eighteenth-century philosophers on all ends of the spectrum, ...
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