Philosophy: Philosophers: D: Descartes, Ren

Part of lecture notes to a course on Later Medieval Philosophy by John Kilcullen at Macquarie University.

Article by Lex Newman from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Entry on Descartes from the Encyclopedia. Includes an assessment of his philosophy.

Class notes by Stephen Daniel, Texas A&M University.

A brief discussion of the life and works of Rene Descartes, with links to electronic texts and additional information by Garth Kemerling.

Web directory of Ren Descartes, from projectlinks.org.

An overview of the significance of Descartes' philosophy.

Interpretations of Ren Descartes' ontology of necessities and possibilities; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by David Cunning.

Discussion of Ren Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan.

Full English texts of Descartes' key works, the Meditations and Discourse on Method. Also includes frequently asked questions, background information, links.

Biography and links concerning the French philosopher who coined the sentence "I think, therefor I am".

Descartes' rationalism and Bacon's empiricism had to be combined to produce the modern scientific method.

A brief and useful overview of Descartes' life and thinking on Wikipedia.

Biography, method, philosophy and heritage. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.