"Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting Ones Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences" is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise by one of the greatest philosophers of all times, René ...

THE year 1936 marked the tricentenary of Descartes' “Discourse on Method”, so Prof. Roth's study is both timely and welcome. A turning point in European thought, the “Discourse” has a story of its own ...

This edition includes the quintessential works of Descartes, to whom modern learning is indebted for some of the most potent factors in its advancement. These are: in Mathematics, the invention of the ...

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; ...

“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 ...