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 ...

" Cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am - was coined by René Descartes in 1637. He was struggling to find a solid philosophical basis for how we know about reality and truth," says a review in the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's not easy to say. Grayling is many sided (as was Nietzsche): pre-eminently a philosopher, he is also esteemed as a writer, ...

A STOLEN letter written by 17th-century thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France overnight, ending a detective tale featuring a Google search and a thieving Italian ...