Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to tell the story of Descartes and his "daughter". Show more There's a story told about French philosopher René Descartes and his daughter. He boards a ship ...

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 ...

Descartes and the Discovery of the Mind-Body Problem | RealClearScienceConsider the human body, with everything in it, including internal and external organs and parts — the stomach, nerves and brain, ...

The artful protagonists of The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam are witty enchantments, products of active imaginations whose disappearance requires further imaginative action.