Scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier, and spy, Rene Descartes was one of the founders of the modern world. His life coincided with an extraordinary time in history: the first half of the ...

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 ...

The French polymath René Descartes (1596-1650) lived after the Renaissance, but he personified that age's interest in mathematics, philosophy, art, and the nature of humanity. He made numerous ...

Many people are eager to warn you of the body horrors caused by pregnancy, but no one tells you what’s going to happen in the months (maybe years?!) after birth.

RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650), philosopher and mathematician, is of course universally, regarded as the inventor of the method of co-ordinates in geometry; hence the common name for them, Cartesian ...

For René Descartes, the problem of keeping body and soul together took three forms. First, how did thinking stuff keep company with material stuff? Soul was active, unextended in space and immortal; ...