Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la …

In Paris, the lectures of Pierre-Sylvain Régis (1632–1707) on Cartesian physics—which he accompanied with spectacular demonstrations of physical phenomena such as optical …

Feb 12, 2020 · As already noticed, his experiments were repeated throughout the 1660s and presented in the treatise published in 1671.

In the first video, we travel back to 1641, the year in which Descartes wrote his Meditations, where we discover two thought experiments Descartes would like us to undertake, from our own first …

In Discourse on the Method (1637), Descartes introduced his Cartesian method as a new approach to acquiring knowledge by eliminating doubt and building a secure foundation of …

The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as " I think, therefore I am ", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes ' philosophy. He originally published it in French as je …

Nov 8, 2025 · The English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), in Advancement of Learning (1605), had earlier proposed a new science of observation and experiment to replace the …

Other philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett and Paul Churchland, have made valiant attempts to develop strictly materialist accounts of consciousness, but their efforts so far have not been …

According to the philosopher Descartes, there is a divide intrinsic to consciousness, such that you cannot ever bridge the space between your own consciousness and that of another. This …

In the Paralogisms chapter of the Transcendental Dialectic, moreover, he conducted a bold thought experiment designed to show that attempts to ground all first-order cognition in some …