We will engage in a close, systematic reading of Descartes' Meditations as a whole. Our discussion will be framed by consideration of the skeptical arguments of the First Meditation and Descartes' ...
René Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, argued that living without questioning is akin to keeping one's eyes closed.
“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am” – is probably the most famous line ever uttered by a philosopher, and likely the only Latin some Americans know. So today, on what would have been the ...