Descartes, René (1596–1650) French
philosopher and mathematician. It would be hard to overestimate the philosophical influence of Descartes. Often called the“father of modern philosophy”, his arguments on doubt, the foundations of know-ledge, and the nature of the human mind, are familiar to countless students. But while Cartesian ideas almost inevitably form the point of departure for our understanding of how epistemology and philosophy of mind developed from the early modern period to the present day, the situation with respect to metaphysics is not so simple. There is some evidence that Descartes’s own motivating interests in philosophy were not primarily metaphysical…
-This article is about Descartes’ ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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