| A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Descartes (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409918343 ISBN-13: 9781409918349 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $11.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Philosophy |
| Lexile Measure: 1840 |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6" W x 9" (0.21 lbs) 56 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Ren (c) Descartes (1596-1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. He has been dubbed the €œFather of Modern Philosophy, € and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely. Descartes was a major figure in 17th century continental rationalism, later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. His most famous statement is: Cogito ergo sum (French: Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am), found in 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy (Latin) and in part IV of Discourse on the Method (French). As the inventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, crucial to the invention of calculus and analysis. Descartes €(TM) reflections on mind and mechanism began the strain of Western thought that much later, impelled by the invention of the electronic computer and by the possibility of machine intelligence, blossomed into the Turing test and related thought. |