Article: Cogito, Ergo Sum.(Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes )(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Descartes, Rene Cogito, Ergo Sum: the Life of ...
Biography;  March 22, 2003 ;     366 words ...Richard Watson. Boston: David R. Godine, 2002. 376 pp. $35.00. "While Watson, an accomplished scholar of Cartesianism, has few competitors for the prize of writing a really interesting life of a classic philosopher, he has one big obstacle in his way: Descartes himself. There are huge gaps in the

Article: How deep is Rene Descartes' cut? How am I related ...
Frontier Perspectives;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... consciousness? Introduction Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a French mathematician ... Discourse on Methods." Cogito ergo sum, "I think, therefore I am ... anything about this paperweight. Rene Descartes was right to that extent. Ontologically ...

Article: An exemplary life: the case of Rene ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT Rene Descartes is the founder of modern philosophy ... of one real, historical individual, Rene Descartes. (8) The Discourse was published ... own escape clause to it. The cogito ergo sum was hoped to provide a platform for ...

Rene Descartes
Archive Photos;  January 1, 1996 ;     333 words ...Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Rene Descartes French philosopher Rene Descartes wearing an impish smile. One of the great figures ... mathematicians. mathematics. French philosopher Rene Descartes wearing an impish smile. One of the great figures ...

Article: The origin of Descartes' mechanical philosophy.(Rene ...
Georgia Journal of Science;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Rene Descartes' concept of a mechanical universe ... article discusses the possibility that Rene Descartes' mechanical philosophy was influenced ... promotion of the mechanical philosophy was Rene Descartes (1596-1650). Among other things ...

Article: Studies from Rene Descartes University, Medical ...
Cancer Weekly;  July 7, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... with mitoxantrone," wrote S. Oudard and colleagues, Rene Descartes University, Medical Oncology Department (see also Prostate ... European Hospital, Medical Oncology Department, Paris Rene Descartes University, Paris, France. The publisher of the journal ...

Article: Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place ...
Biography;  March 22, 2006 ;     431 words ...Descartes, Rene Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place in His Times. A. C. Grayling. New York: Free Press, 2005. 352 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. Grayling examines Descartes's life "within a wider historical context ...