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” – 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 ...

In 1644, the French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes formulated several “laws of nature,” which helped lay the groundwork for classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.

Smack bang in the middle of your brain sits a tiny structure called the pineal gland, which has puzzled neuroscientists and ...

A familiar fable about René Descartes, writes Matthew L. Jones, an assistant professor of history at Columbia University, has it that, around 1640, the philosopher revolutionized the concept of ...

Most Americans probably have only a vague notion of Rene Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, as the guy who declared, "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"). It's ...

At the start of a course of lectures on Aristotle in the 1920s, Martin Heidegger made a terse remark about the relevance of biography to the philosopher’s task when considering the work of a ...

There are few chefs that come close to Adrià‘s high intellect; in fact, his tweets alone compete with mankind’s greatest thinkers, including French philosopher, mathematician and, writer René ...

An admirable portrait of Descartes’s life in the Netherlands, but one which gives no sense of the strangeness of Descartes’s vision. By Colin MacCabe The Philosopher, the Priest and the Painter ...