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  1. Rene Descartes

    René Descartes (born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden) was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. Because he was one of the first to abandon Scholastic Aristotelianism, because he formulated the first modern version of mind-body dualism, from which stems the mind-body problem ...

  2. Rene Descartes: Biography, Philosopher, I Think; Therefore I Am

    QUICK FACTS. Name: René Descartes. Birth Year: 1596. Birth date: March 31, 1596. Birth City: La Haye, Touraine. Birth Country: France. Gender: Male. Best Known For: Philosopher and mathematician ...

  3. René Descartes

    René Descartes (1596-1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or "natural philosopher" second, and a metaphysician third. In mathematics, he developed the techniques that made ...

  4. René Descartes

    René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART or UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 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.Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he ...

  5. René Descartes

    René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, natural scientist, and philosopher, best known by the phrase 'Cogito ergo sum' ('I think therefore I am').He published works on optics, coordinate geometry, physiology, and cosmology, however, he is mostly remembered as the "father of modern philosophy".He lived in a time preceding the Age of Enlightenment that flourished in Europe in the ...

  6. Descartes' Life and Works

    Descartes' Life and Works. First published Mon Apr 9, 2001; substantive revision Wed Mar 1, 2023. Descartes has been heralded as the first modern philosopher. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra, which allowed for the solving of geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations.

  7. Rene Descartes biography

    Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) French philosopher and mathematician. Descartes is considered the founder of modern philosophy for successfully challenging many of the accepted wisdom of the medieval scholastic traditions of Aristotelian philosophy. Descartes promoted the importance of using human reason to deduct the truth. This principle of reason was an important aspect of the Enlightenment

  8. Descartes, Rene

    Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Though somewhat technical, this is a very good biography of Descartes' intellectual development emphasizing his early years and his interests in mathematics and science. Kenny, Anthony, Descartes: A Study of His Philosophy, New York: Random House, 1968.

  9. René Descartes (1596

    Biography. René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La Géométrie Ⓣ, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. René Descartes' parents were Joachim Descartes (1563-1640) and Jeanne Brochard (1566-1597). Joachim, the son of the medical doctor Pierre Descartes (1515-1566), studied law and ...

  10. Rene Descartes

    DESCARTES, RENE DU PERRON (b. La Haye, Touraine, France, 31 March 1596; d. ... In brief, the method is a sophistication of the earlier Rules for the Direction of the Mind. ... The standard biography is Haldane's Descartes: His Life and Times (1905; repr. 1966).

  11. René Descartes

    Lived 1596 - 1650. René Descartes invented analytical geometry and introduced skepticism as an essential part of the scientific method. He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers in history. His analytical geometry was a tremendous conceptual breakthrough, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.

  12. René Descartes

    René Descartes. First published Wed Dec 3, 2008. René Descartes (1596-1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or "natural philosopher" second, and a metaphysician third.

  13. A Guide to René Descartes' Life and Philosophy

    A Guide to René Descartes' Life and Philosophy. French philosopher René Descartes helped develop the principles of rationalism, a seventeenth-century philosophical movement. Today Descartes is remembered as a father of modern philosophy as well as a pioneering mathematician and scientist.

  14. A Short Biography of Descartes

    A black and white print of René Descartes. R enè Descartes is a famous philosopher considered to be the founding father of 'modern' philosophy. He was born in 1596, in small town called La ...

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    Bibliography. Internet Sources. After receiving a sound education in mathematics, classics, and law at La Flèche and Poitiers, René Descartes embarked on a brief career in military service with Prince Maurice in Holland and Bavaria. Unsatisfied with scholastic philosophy and troubled by skepticism of the sort expounded by Montaigne, Descartes ...

  16. Descartes: A Biography

    Desmond M. Clarke, Descartes: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 520pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0521823013. There has developed, in recent years, a small industry in the writing of philosophical biographies -- books detailing the lives of great philosophers, providing background to the development of their thoughts, or describing the ...

  17. Descartes' Mathematics

    Descartes' Mathematics. First published Mon Nov 28, 2011; substantive revision Wed Apr 28, 2021. To speak of René Descartes' contributions to the history of mathematics is to speak of his La Géométrie (1637), a short tract included with the anonymously published Discourse on Method. In La Géométrie , Descartes details a groundbreaking ...

  18. PDF Biography: René Descartes

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  19. Rene Descartes Timeline

    Timeline. 1596 - 1650. Life of French philosopher Rene Descartes . 1633. Philosopher Rene Descartes writes his Le Monde, a defense of the heliocentric view of the solar system. 1637. Philosopher René Descartes writes his Discourse on the Method. 1641.

  20. Philosophy: Rene Descartes

    Biography. René Descartes (1596-1650) was an influential French philosopher, and many subsequent Western philosophers created their ideas around or in reaction to his. His main philosophical contribution is the oft-repeated maxim "cogito ergo sum", or "I think therefore I am". His ability to reason and thus his own existence are indubitable ...

  21. Meditations on First Philosophy Study Guide

    Brief Biography of René Descartes. René Descartes (pronounced day-cart) is generally considered the most significant French philosopher of the 1600s and the father of modern philosophy, above all because of the method he develops in Meditations. He was born to a prominent Catholic family in the Touraine Province of Western France and received ...