There is a lot to be said for René Descartes’s little book Discourse on Method for Rightly Conducting Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences. Although published in the 17th-century, it is in ...
In 1758, Claude-Adrien Helvétius argued, “All judgment is nothing more than a sensation,” and he was far from alone in this conviction. Eighteenth-century philosophers on all ends of the spectrum, ...
In 1758, Claude-Adrien Helvétius argued, “All judgment is nothing more than a sensation,” and he was far from alone in this conviction. Eighteenth-century philosophers on all ends of the spectrum, ...
Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius. Your brain has been expertly removed ...
Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius. Your brain has been expertly removed ...
Richard Franks explains how Cartesian ideas influence the way we think and behave today By Richard Francks The work of René Descartes (1596-1650) played an important part in what historians used to ...
Every day we take the world around us for granted. We accept our perceptions as axiomatic certainties upon which everything we know is built; yet this foundation is a lie. Through the toil and focus ...
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