Descartes, Ren Gombay, eds. Passion and Virtue in Descartes. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003. Wilson, Margaret Dauler. Descartes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,...

Cartesianism According to one panoramic view of modern philosophy, René Descartes is the father and Cartesianism an inherited characteristic or family trait. With no disparagement intended of this assessment of Descartes's influence, the...

René Descartes (1596–1650) was born in La Haye (now Descartes), France, on March 31, and he died in Stockholm, Sweden, on February 11. Although of Roman Catholic heritage, he lived in a region controlled by Protestant Huguenots at a time...

DESCARTES, RENÉ (1596–1650), French philosopher. Descartes is held to be the father of modern philosophy and chief architect of the modern approach to the relationship between science and religion. The scholastic tradition, already ably...

(born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden) French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. Because he was one of the first to abandon scholastic Aristotelianism, because he formulated the first...

Cartesianism [addendum] Apparently, it was the Cambridge Platonist Henry More who introduced the term Cartesianism —from the Latin Cartesius —into the English language. The term itself now denotes either the views of René Descartes...

René Descartes built the foundation for modern philosophical method with a simple catchphrase:...

1596-1650 French Philosopher, Physiologist, and Mathematician René Descartes, who was born in La Haye (now Descartes), France and died in Stockholm, Sweden, has been called the founder of modern philosophy, but he is also honored as a...

(born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died Feb. 11, 1650, Stockholm, Swed.) French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, considered the father of modern philosophy. Educated at a Jesuit college, he joined the military in 1618 and...

. 1596–1650. Born at La Haye in France and educated by the Jesuits, he travelled in his youth and then lived mostly in Holland, but finally at the Swedish court. Usually known as the first of the ‘continental RATIONALISTS’, he...

1596-1650 French mathematician and philosopher whose most significant contribution was analytic geometry. His coordinate system—subsequently called Cartesian in his honor—allowed geometric problems to be solved algebraically and thus...

René Descartes (French IPA: [ÊÉ'ne de'kaÊt]) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. He has been dubbed the...