At the center of this philosophical tale by the acclaimed author of The Island at the Center of the World is a simple mystery: Where in the world is Descartes's skull, and how did it get separated ...

Descartes claims he can prove the existence of God. In two or three different ways, in fact. Most people who read those proofs are unimpressed by them. Let’s assume they are right, and that Descartes’ ...

Philosophers have been trying to prove God’s existence for centuries, but they haven’t had much success. However, in the book Ten Proofs of the Existence of God by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud ...

Vol. 83, No. 2, Pierre Duhem: Historian and Philosopher of Science. Part I: Duhem as Historian of Science (May, 1990), pp. 215-238 (24 pages) Here I reexamine Duhem's question of the continuity ...

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A letter by French philosopher René Descartes, stolen more than 150 years ago, has been located at a small college in the U.S. Dutch scholar Erik-Jan Bos discovered on a Google search that the 1641 ...