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Extractions: You are in: Virtual Public Library Hall of Famous Authors Rene Descartes French philosopher was one of the most important and influential thinkers in human history, sometimes called the founder of modern philosophy Research Links Virtualology is not affiliated with the authors of these links nor responsible for each Link's content. Descartes' "Discourse on the Method" (Internet Encyclopedia of ...
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René Descartes, 15961650. Because Descartes is clearly one of themost celebrated intellects in the western intellectual tradition
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Extractions: René Descartes, 1596-1650 Because Descartes is clearly one of the most celebrated intellects in the western intellectual tradition, you will find a great deal of information about him on the Internet. For biographical details, be sure to consult the relevant articles at the MacTutor , Björn Christensson's Brief Guide to Descartes , Clodius Piat's discussion in The Catholic Encyclopedia and a short piece at the ILTweb Study Place . The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an excellent and very thorough article about Descartes. The Galileo Project at Rice University also contains an important Descartes " fact sheet ." And don't forget to read W. W. Rouse Ball's essay on Descartes from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th ed., 1908). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes on essay on Descartes' epistemology and at Bryn Mawr you can find the essay, René Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism We are indeed fortunate that some thoughtful soul has made the Discourse on the Method available in HTML format. The
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Full English texts of Descartes' key works, the Meditations and Discourse on Method. Also includes Category Society Philosophy Philosophers Descartes, RenéRENÉ Descartes (15961650) Cogito Ergo Sum ( I think, thereforeI am. ). René Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town
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Extractions: "Cogito Ergo Sum" ("I think, therefore I am.") Ren Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town of La Haye in the south of France, the son of Joachim Descartes, a Councilor in Parliament and and intellectual who made certain to provide a good learning environment for his son. In 1606, at the age of 8, René attended the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Fl che, where he studied literature, grammar, science, and mathematics. In 1614, he left La Fl che to study civil and cannon Law at Poitiers. In 1616, he received his baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in Law. Aside from his Law degrees, Descartes also spent time studying philosophy, theology, and medicine. After a short stay in the military, Descartes went on to lead a quiet life, continuing his intellectual pursuits, writing philosophical essays, and exploring the world of science and mathematics. In 1637, he published "geometry", in which his combination of algebra and geometry gave birth to analytical geometry, better known as Cartesian geometry. But the most important contribution Descartes made were his philosophical writings; Descartes, who was convinced that science and mathematics could be used to explain everything in nature, was the first to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion, seeing the universe a as giant mathematically designed engine. Descartes wrote three important texts: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.
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Rene Descartes. Philosopher and Mathematician. French. 15961650.Descartes was a jack of all trades , making major contributions to
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Extractions: Descartes was a "jack of all trades", making major contributions to the areas of anatomy, cognitive science, optics, mathematics and philosophy. Underlying his methodology is the belief that all science is based on mathematics. This is manifested in his unification of ancient geometry and his new alegbra based on the Cartesian coodinate system. For Descartes, certainty in philosphy and in mathematics is gained through understanding. We may know that two apples and two apples makes four apples, but Descartes believes that matematics transcends the senses, contributing to an overall mathematical order to the universe that is independent of senses. Senses were at the center of his Meditations on First Philosphy , a work in which Descartes explores the concepts of self, God and mind. He begins by shaking our belief in the sneses; if they are all an illusion created by a malicious deceiver, what can we trust? His answer is that we can doubt, and that the deceiver cannot cause us to doubt our own existence. Thus, the famous "cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). However, the I is not a physical "i", is is an immaterial mind that is identified by "I". Thus begins Cartesian Dualism, the theory that there are two fundamental types of entities : mind and matter. The physical bodies exists extended in space, with depth, width and breadth. However, minds are entirely immaterial and nonspatial; they are the "I" he refers to. Since the mind is the only entity that can think (rocks cannot), Descartes uses the cogito arguemnt to prove the existence of a mind.
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distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks,it is to the seminal work of Rene Descartes (15961650) , French mathematician
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Extractions: While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of Rene Descartes (1596-1650) , French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. Descartes was born in Touraine, in the small town of La Haye and educated from the age of eight at the Jesuit college of La Fleche. At La Flche, Descartes formed the habit of spending the morning in bed, engaged in systematic meditation. During his meditations, he was struck by the sharp contrast between the certainty of mathematics and the controversial nature of philosophy, and came to believe that the sciences could be made to yield results as certain as those of mathematics. From 1612, when he left La Fleche, until 1628, when he settled in Holland, Descartes spent much of his time in travel, contemplation, and correspondence.
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Extractions: DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. At a time when the intellectual movements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance had become moribund, he conceived fresh programs for philosophy and science and elaborated and defended them with great originality and brilliance. Descartes founded modern philosophical rationalism and had a profound and pervasive influence on subsequent philosophers of all schools. He was among the first to construe philosophy as providing a necessary foundation for science and, rejecting the traditional contemplative ideal, to regard science as a means of acquiring mastery over nature for the benefit of mankind. In addition to being an innovator in philosophy, he was one of the creators of mathematical physics, the inventor of analytic geometry, and an important figure in the histories of optics, physiology, and other branches of science. Science and sapience
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Extractions: . (The still-quoted sentence, "I think, therefore I am," comes from the Discours .) In 1649, after much hesitation, Descartes accepted the invitation of the 22-year-old Queen Christina to come to Sweden as her private tutor. After only four months of winter tutoring sessions, always held at 5:00 in the morning in the ice-cold library, Descartes died of pneumonia. Discours was a 106-page essay entitled It provides the first printed account of what is now called analytic or coordinate geometry. The work exerted great influence after being published in a Latin translation along with explanatory notes. The introduced many innovations in mathematical notation, most of which are still in use. With Descartes, small letters near the beginning of the alphabet indicate constants and those near the end stand for variables. He initiated the use of numerical superscripts to denote powers of a quantity, while occasionally writing aa for the second power
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Extractions: Rene Descartes is labelled as the first modern philosopher. Born in La Haye in Central France he was left an annual income for life by his father who was a prosperous lawyer. His early education was from the Jesuits which he then went on to gain degrees in Civil and Church law at the University of Poitiers. He is most famous for his statement of principal of certainty and validity, "I think therefore I am." His main argument was that God did not create people with unreliable senses, which we conclude Descartes believed "sense" information is an individuals only accurate depiction of the environment. Descartes always maintained that the role of the brain was to be a transitional agent between spiritual energies of the mind and physical forces of bodily mechanics. When he died in 1663 all his books were placed in The Index of Forbidden Books by the church. Cartesian dualism (the interaction between Mind and Body) asserts all human activity excluding thinking and feeling come under the heading of Bodily Physiology and can be said to be the study of the psychophysilogical. He is credited for directly stimulating the founding of psychology which in turn now gives us the discipline known as parapsychology. Although many psychologists have difficulty in applying some of the theories of parapsychology to psychology, as both of them rely heavily on scientific (statistical) data. BACK 2 MAIN SUBJECT GRID
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René Descartes (15961650). Bibliography. Boorsch, Jean. The ScientificWork of René Descartes (1596-1650). London Taylor Francis, 1952.
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Extractions: Bottom of Page Master Contents Horus Publications Bibliography Boorsch, Jean. . Paris, 1937. Caton, Hiram. The Origin of Subjectivity. An Essay on Descartes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Bibliography of Cartesian studies from 1960 to 1970, extending the work of Sebba, below. Sebba, Gregor. Bibliographia Cartesiana, a critical guide to the Descartes Literature, 1800-1960. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1964. The Philosophical Works of Descartes. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, Translators and Editors. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984-85. The translation by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch is considered more sensitive to modern English and is preferred to the older translation, Elizabeth S. Haldane, Translator and Editor, The Philosophical Works of Descartes, 2 vols. (Cambridge, [Eng.]: 1911-1912). Principles of Philosophy . Valentine Rodger Miller and Reese P. Miller, Translators. Synthese Historical Library, 24; Collection des Travaux de l'Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, 30. Dordrecht /Boston /London: D. Reidel, 1983. This is the only English translation of the complete work. The Haldane translation omits most of Parts II, III, and IV.
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Extractions: Philosopher of the Week. Nov. 4th, 2002. Rene Descartes The Kids Philosophy Slam now features a philosopher of the week. Included with this new offering is a brief biography and famous quotes of the featured philosopher, ideas for classroom discussions, and links to related philosopher sites! There will be a new philosopher of the week each and every week through March! Rene Descartes (1596-1650) (France) Like the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, Rene Descartes used questions to find truth. He questioned everything including his own existence. "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." He proved that he existed with the statement, "I think therefore I am." Because he could think, he must exist. Descartes used "hyperbolic doubt", a method of reasoning that stated that though he may doubt, he cannot doubt that he exists. Descartes was a scientist at heart and used science to explore his ideas. He set out to trust only that which is clearly and distinctly seen to be beyond any doubt. Anything that could be doubted was rejected. This included God and the teachings of the church. He believed that he could not trust his senses, because distance can distort what you see. He came to the conclusion that he could only trust mathematics because, awake or asleep, two plus three always equals five.
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Extractions: Descartes, Rene Descartes, Rene French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, born in La Haye, Touraine (a region and former province of France). Descartes believed science and mathematics could explain and predict events in the physical world. Descartes developed the Cartesian coordinate system for graphing equations and geometric shapes. Modern maps use a grid system that can be traced back to Cartesian graphing techniques. Background Music:
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Extractions: Philosopher Geometer Algebraist The Renaissance Man What is in a name? The phrase "Renaissance man" has become almost outdated as its origin. In a world where people now major in college and specialize in fields, calling someone a "jack of all trades" has become an insult. But for some few, the term remains as a symbol of genius. Hear one such name; a world will open up before you, the world of a philosopher and a mathematician. Hear his voice today, from beyond the grave; enter the realm of Descartes. An Interview Constructed by Tanya Burka '99. Spring 1998. Tanya: Youve been quoted as saying, "Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt: with me, everything turns into mathematics." Are you going to answer our questions with equations? Descartes: No, I hope not. I only speak one language really, mathematics, but I dabble in others like English just enough to answer questions and buy groceries (laughs). Much of life can be related to mathematics, you know. That has always been my greatest hope: to see the universe explained in its own building blocks, equations. T: Can you give us an example?
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Extractions: RENÉ DESCARTES (1596-1650) Back to Philosophers and Scientists Born 31 Marsh in La Haye the son of a conseiller to the Parlement of Brittany Attended Jesuit college of La Flèche. Studied law at the University of Potiers. Graduate Batchelor and licentiate. Joined the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau as a gentleman volunteer. Meet Isaac Beeckman. Compendium Musicae written. Joined the Duke of Bavaria's army. Discovered his "method" in a "well heated room". Sold family house and estates. Tourned Italy. Settled in Holland near Amsterdam. Writes Regulae ad directionem ingenii- not published until 1701. Traité du Monde ready for publication. sent to printers then withdrwan because of condemnation of Galileo. Discourse on the Method ... Also the Dioptric, the Meteors, and the Geometry, which are essays in this method published in French. Objections and replies [to the discourse on method] and Meditations on the first philosophy published. Principals of Philosophy published in Latin. The description of the human body written.
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