René Descartes

Tags: Philosopher.

René Descartes (French: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: Cartesian; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed The Father of Modern Philosophy and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings which are studied closely to this day.

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birth date

1596-03-31

birth place

Descartes Indre-et-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, Kingdom of France

death date

1650-02-11

death place

Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Empire

era

17th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118524844

influenced

Baruch Spinoza, Blaise Pascal, Edmund Husserl, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, John Locke, Noam Chomsky, Malebranche, Slavoj Žižek

influenced by

Alhazen, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Plato, Jacobus Golius, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Michel de Montaigne, William of Ockham, Sextus Empiricus, Marin Mersenne, Francisco Suárez, Isaac Beeckman, Ghazali, Duns Scotus

LCCN Id

n/79/61201

main interest

Epistemology, Metaphysics

notableIdea

Cartesian coordinate system, Cogito ergo sum, Dualism (philosophy of mind), Folium of Descartes, Cartesian doubt, Mathesis universalis, Ontological argument

philosophicalSchool

Foundationalism, Rationalism, Cartesianism

region

Western philosophy