What if Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)—whose body is on public display for the first time in 110 years—influenced René Descartes ...

From the age of 11 to 18, Descartes attended one of the best schools in Europe, the Jesuit College of Henry IV in La Flèche, France. In his later work Discourse on the Method, Descartes wrote ...

It isn’t easy to see Descartes’s work the way he saw it—the relationship between science and philosophy has changed too much for that. Despite his current reputation, the man himself seems ...

So today, on what would have been the 419 th birthday of René Descartes, the French philosopher and mathematician behind the famous line, William & Mary philosophy professors reflect on the man, his ...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650 ... teaching and practice were so thwarted that they were based on pre-scientific work done in the second century AD. A dramatic turnaround occurred with the Enlightenment.

Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes, the founding genius of modern ... of “Meditations on First Philosophy,” a celebrated work whose use of reason and scientific methods helped ...