Toward the end of the Renaissance period, a radical epistemological and metaphysical shift overcame the Western psyche. The advances of Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon posed a ...

“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am” – is probably the most famous line ever uttered by a philosopher, and likely the only Latin some Americans know. So today, on what would have been the ...

EDSAC I, nearly complete, W. Renwick. Several centuries ago, a short, ugly Frenchman, Rene Descartes, proclaimed that the human body and the human mind live in two different worlds - that there exists ...

How are you? Of course, I realize that how you are is actually not. You have, in fact, ceased to exist. And you've been dead for a long time. Since your passing in 1650, however, your ideas continue ...

What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In “The Matter of Mind,” Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of ...

In this blog I want to turn to the problem we have had since Rene Descartes proposed his dualism: Res Cogitans and Res Extensa. Here Res Extensa captures his mechanistic world view in which our bodies ...

It was too early in the morning on a Monday to have a disparaging thought about Rene Descartes. It all started — and gathered momentum — following a voice note left for me by my clinical psychologist ...

Rene Descartes (1596–1650) is the author of perhaps the most famous philosophical quote of all, cogito ergo sum, usually rendered as I think, therefore I am. There is however more to this quote, and ...

Toward the end of the Renaissance period, a radical epistemological and metaphysical shift overcame the Western psyche. The advances of Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon posed a ...