It is unclear which works by Campanella Descartes really did read and which ones he did not. Although the Correspondence edited by Adam and Tannery is duly annotated, it brought about some confusion.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of the most famous statements in philosophy, 'Cogito ergo sum', Rene Descartes' attempt to establish what we can truly know. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his ...

I first heard the word “cogito” in college and it remains one of the few Latin words imprinted in my vocabulary. Literally meaning, “I think,” the term is most often associated with the famous dictum ...

Sometime, around 1600 A.D., Rene Descartes asked himself, “Who am I” and discovered that everything he knew or believed was the product of someone else’s thinking. He vowed to discard everything he ...

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 ...

Antonio Damasio’s two previous books, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens, appealed not only to scientists. The citations, prizes and honours, not ...

The School of Modern History and Philosophy continued to attract philosophy aficionados and students from the twin cities as it wrapped up its lectures for the month of May. The school, a ...

I first heard the word “cogito” in college and it remains one of the few Latin words imprinted in my vocabulary. Literally meaning, “I think,” the term is most often associated with the famous dictum ...