| 单词 | Descartes |
| 例句 | Others, though, argued that it was quite clear that general laws of the sort described by Descartes could never produce the perfect design that one could find in the paw of a dog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes quickly realized how powerful his coordinate system was. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Excited and exhausted, Descartes fell asleep and dreamed three dreams. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, though zero appeared and reappeared throughout Descartes’s philosophy, Descartes insisted unto his death that the void—the ultimate zero—does not exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Descartes was absolutely furious and denied any influence, but when Mersenne visited Beeckman and read his journal he discovered that, indeed, many of Descartes’ ideas had first been formulated by Beeckman. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was while he was at the Military School at Breda that Descartes met the mathematician Isaac Beeckman, of Dordrecht, who introduced him to higher aspects of mathematics and became a long-term friend. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Descartes exploded again, telling Beeckman he had learnt as much from him as he had learnt from ants and worms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus Descartes opted for the least common phrase available to him in French as a translation for lex naturae in order to give his phrase a precise reference to scientific laws, not moral ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This is not, Descartes assures us, how our universe began: God made it, God ordered it, as we all know. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet Descartes could not reject Aristotle entirely; he was so afraid of the void that he denied its existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The big thing that Descartes got wrong was his rejection of the idea of a vacuum or ‘void’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Lying half awake, Descartes tried to interpret his dreams. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a difficult position to take; Descartes was certainly mindful of the metaphysical problems of rejecting the vacuum entirely. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is time to look more closely at the work of Descartes and other scientists who built on the foundations laid by Galileo. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Yet, like the medieval scholars before him, Descartes believed that nothing truly moved in a straight line, for that would leave a vacuum behind it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A child of the Counter-Reformation, Descartes learned about Aristotle at the very moment when the church was relying upon his principles the most. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As a result, Descartes, indoctrinated with the Aristotelian philosophy, denied the existence of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was helpful for the generation of the theoretical models which explained air pressure and the vacuum, even if those models were unacceptable to Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes gets himself into a bit of a tangle here. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z More to the point, a modern list of laws would have deeply puzzled Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many eighteenth-century atheists, such as d’Holbach and Diderot, were to take their inspiration from Descartes’ mechanism and turn it into a systematic materialism with no room for God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On most questions Descartes is a rationalist, but as far as the laws of nature are concerned he appears to want to have it both ways. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is not surprising that Descartes’ formulations provoked confusion and controversy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even the Jesuits had allowed him considerable indulgence, such as permission to get up late in the morning, which became not so much a habit as a way of life for Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To Descartes, zero was also implicit in God’s domain, as was the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His discussion of clear and distinct ideas thus follows the example of Descartes, who maintains that only ideas which are clear can be used in argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes solved this problem as best he could by claiming that mind acted on the body through the pineal gland. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And we find a third use, as in Descartes’ S45: the use of ‘hypothesis’ to refer to an argument that is acknowledged to be false but held in some way to be useful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes knew all about this work—as we have mentioned, he suggested the idea of taking a barometer up a mountain to see how the pressure changed with altitude. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Perspective painting, ballistics and fortification, cartography and navigation prepared the ground for Galileo, Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The soul, Descartes claimed, is unique to rational human beings; animals have no soul and no capacity to reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Descartes’ system there is only one type of matter which, by its interactions and conglomerations, produces the vast diversity of materials that we experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes made a strict separation between mind and matter: mind was immaterial and immortal, so that mind’s relationship to the sensory world of space and time was inherently problematic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, as we moved from one relic to the next, they debated philosophy—Hobbes and Descartes, Aquinas and Machiavelli. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It is only from the 1640s that natural philosophy becomes a crucial category, largely owing to the influence of Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although Descartes followed the ancient atomists in their distinction between primary and secondary qualities, he rejected their belief in empty space, the void. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1623, Descartes was twenty-seven, and Blaise Pascal, who would become Descartes’s opponent, was zero years old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Descartes, in the case of gravity this pushing process was the result of the Earth being caught up in a vast vortex of fluid swirling round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes and Boyle are confident they can protect themselves from atheism, the first by distinguishing mind from matter, and the second by regarding the natural world as providing proof of God’s design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reference to Descartes is simply there to put Hooke in his place by suggesting that the priority Hooke claims actually belongs to Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Descartes realized that he could not start his two reference lines, or axes, with the number 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Descartes and Beeckman chatted away in Latin and discovered that they had interests in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Waking from this nightmare, Descartes prayed and tried to compose his spirits. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After Galileo the distinction was adopted by Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the time Descartes published the Discourse he had decided that the best way to introduce his philosophy was through applying scepticism absolutely to the limit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As late as the seventeenth century, Descartes refused to accept negative numbers as roots of equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was adopted by Malebranche and other followers of Descartes, and Newton sometimes speaks as if every act of gravitational attraction is directly willed by God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why could Descartes not bear the simple truth, that much of what he knew he had learnt from Beeckman? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But, trapped by winter, Descartes shut himself up in a room heated by a stove and sat and sat, and thought and thought. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The problem with Descartes’ story is that it is not true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since the old Aristotelian doctrine was crumbling, Descartes, true to his Jesuit training, tried to use nought and infinity to replace the old proof of God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But at the core of Descartes’ philosophy there was this set of arguments in favour of belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before they read Descartes in 1637 the English had called complex machines ‘engines’, not ‘machines’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes’ conception of the laws of nature was deeply influential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z René Descartes was trained as a Jesuit, and he, too, was torn between the old and the new. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even animals, in Descartes’ view, were just automata. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Had he still been alive to respond, though, Descartes would surely have replied to Newton that the problem was nobody could run fast enough to make the trick work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Might there be a universe in which Descartes’ third law of nature actually holds? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z So in 1649, when Queen Christina of Sweden invited him to join the circle of intellectuals that she was gathering in Stockholm, Descartes leaped at the chance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z After their first meeting, Descartes wrote of him: “I could not believe that a single mind could occupy itself with so many things, and equip itself so well in all of them.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But to understand where Descartes’ preoccupation with laws of nature comes from we must consider a text that has not previously been discussed in this context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In English there was an alternative: Robert Boyle invented the term ‘the corpuscularian philosophy’ in 1662 to cover both ancient atomism and Descartes’ new corpuscular theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In his book Descartes’ Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For the rest of his life Descartes dated his new life as a philosopher from these dreams. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes’ argument did not fare so well; even Locke thought that there might be such a thing as thinking matter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The poster was in Flemish, and so Descartes turned to the person standing next to him, also studying the poster, and asked him to translate it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes was a late holdover, a victim of his success in marrying algebra to geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The combination of the northern winter and early rising proved too much for Descartes’s comfort-loving body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s worth looking at this false step before discussing Descartes’s influence in areas where he was more right than wrong. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Born in 1596 in the middle of France, Descartes would bring zero to the center of the number line, and he would seek a proof of God in the void and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Matter, as far as Descartes was concerned, had only one fundamental characteristic, that it occupied space; it followed that there could be no vacuum, as this would be space with nothing occupying it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the age of 20, Descartes now took stock of his life and decided that he was not interested in a career in the professions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Even Newton, though, relied on his immediate predecessors, in particular Galileo Galilei and René Descartes, and in that sense his contributions followed naturally from what went before. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z For Descartes the material world consists of divisible corpuscles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There is no doubt that it has multiple origins, nor that it takes on a wholly new importance with Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes tried to find this poem in the book, but the book and the stranger disappeared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It will now be apparent that Descartes and Boyle both have what we may term mechanical philosophies, but that they are very different. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like Pythagoras, Descartes was a mathematician-philosopher; perhaps his most lasting legacy was a mathematical invention—what we now call Cartesian coordinates. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Henry himself also died at the hands of an assassin, in 1610, when René Descartes was 14 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There is no reason to doubt the stove-heated room or the dreams, but all the evidence suggests that Descartes’ new philosophical life had begun exactly a year earlier, on 10 November 1618. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z ‘Engine’ and ‘machine’ still have overlapping meanings as a consequence of Descartes’ influence on the English language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That culture was peculiarly English for, as we have seen, Descartes studiously avoided appeals to design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since we have a concept of an infinite perfect being in our minds, Descartes then argued that this infinite and perfect being—God—must exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When Descartes describes something in nature as a machine it is biological entities which he always has in mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The challenge set by Descartes was, of course, that of building an automaton that could behave like an animal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We are entitled to feel at home in Boyle’s universe, even if it is a mechanical apparatus; it is not clear that an immortal, immaterial soul has any business feeling at home in Descartes’ universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a letter to Descartes’ friend Mersenne he mentioned that some of Descartes’ ideas on music had come from him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “As surely, saith Descartes, as if we were struck in the face.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Descartes was willing to envision a universe where God set up the initial conditions and then left the machine to assemble and run itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Descartes and his authorized translator from Latin into French never write of la loy de nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fashion for the word ‘hypothesis’ was new; it began with the publication of Descartes’ Principles in 1644. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descartes, following in this tradition, used the word in S45 to refer to principles that ought, for theological reasons, to be acknowledged as false, but that are helpful if one pretends they might be true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Galileo described nature as inexorable and immutable, and it is very hard to understand how there can be exceptions of any sort to Descartes’ laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the comfort-loving Descartes wasn’t a fighting soldier; he found his military niche as an engineer, using his mathematical skills rather than his less-developed physical abilities. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The next year Descartes formulated his famous doctrine cogito ergo sum, ‘I think therefore I am’; consequently, there is something, one thing, I know for certain. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Where did Descartes’ conception of a law of nature come from? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Carte'sian, relating to the philosophy of Descartes: a French philosopher of the 17th century. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had done nothing else, laying all these foundations of analytical mathematics would have made Descartes a key figure in seventeenth-century science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z When Descartes produced his study of the rainbow he had to start from scratch, despite the fact that he was very largely simply repeating the work both of Theodoric and of al-Farisi. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the continent, a much more deductive style of science was preferred, science conducted in the style of Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Long before Descartes we can find references to laws of nature in a scientific context, and scholars have struggled to disentangle the origins of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He stopped the publication immediately, and the book never was published, although large parts of it were used as the basis for some of Descartes’s later works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Most mathematicians—Galileo, Pascal, Descartes, Newton—were familiar with the word’s use in technical astronomy, and tended to avoid it in other contexts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The old philosophy is, by the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism; modern science is the science of Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Discourse is a strange work because it is both autobiography and philosophy; Descartes teaches us how to think by telling us the steps he went through in learning how to think. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z René Descartes summed this up in his famous phrase: cogito ergo sum – I think, therefore I am. Emptiness doesn't have to mean nothingness: it could mean happiness 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Drawing on the intellectual history of computer science, from Descartes to Alan Turing, he cautions his readers against what he sees as a “knowledge monopoly.” New in Paperback: ‘Prairie Fires,’ ‘Cockfosters’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z After graduating from the Lycée Descartes, where he took advanced courses in philosophy and mathematics, Yves studied mathematics at the University of Poitiers. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z So forget Descartes’ “I think therefore I am,” it’s time for a new philosophical bumper sticker: “I am because you are.” Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z This was, in any case, the bargain that was made in the seventeenth century, when Descartes and Galileo deemed consciousness a subjective phenomenon unfit for empirical study. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z While staying in a sanatorium in RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire, he became preoccupied with books – consuming at random everything from translations of the classics to Hobbes, Descartes and Wittgenstein, and contemporary British fiction. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z The document, experts say, reveals just how much Descartes tailored his writings to answer his contemporary critics. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z The final episode of Michael Mosley's excellent series takes in a typically eclectic cast, including Descartes, Darwin and an orangutan called Jenny. Luther 2010-06-01T05:45:00Z We’re shown Philosophy 101 stalwarts Plato and Descartes as its pioneers. ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z In this way Descartes acknowledges the complexity of thinking, judging, and in his way incorporates the feeling of consciousness and the complexity of it more adequately than most theorists do now. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z She is currently developing “Wind-Up Girl,” a musical about the French philosopher René Descartes. Three Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Kleban Prizes 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But, where Descartes’s argument was essentially about skepticism—How do you know you’re not living in the Matrix?—the simulation argument is about how we envision the future. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z They were, in other words, reproducing the epistemological conundrums that had bedeviled modern philosophy since Descartes. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead of solving these problems, Rorty thought we could ditch them, just as Descartes had ditched the problems of thirteenth-century scholasticism, and at a similarly low cost to the progress of human knowledge. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z European philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, seeking to build a foundation of truth that was separable from the vicissitudes of emotion, articulated sharp divisions between war and peace, mind and body. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As one of the characters observes, Descartes’s “I think therefore I am” is therefore obsolete, replaced by “I think therefore I’m almost certainly a program.” The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr Hazareesingh’s inquiry is partly a dense compendium of such thought from René Descartes onwards. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Descartes thought our selves were the only things of which we could be certain. Total Recall fuels delusion about who we are 2012-08-28T09:39:32Z The sublime silliness of Monty Python has always had an intellectual underpinning; not many comedy troupes have sung about Heidegger and Descartes or joked about summarizing Proust. Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He wrote "Descartes' Error" and "Looking for Spinoza," and both books are about the brain and how the brain works. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z ‘I think’ “I think therefore I am undermining myself,” said Descartes’ sister. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z To spare Vedette’s ostensible shame, the owners move her alone to a barn next to the directors’ home, where Bories sings her a song and reads aloud passages from Descartes’s “Animals Are Machines.” ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Frequently suspected of heresy, Descartes sent copies of his arguments to well-known theologians to gauge their opinions and answer their objections within his text. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z In an epilogue, four figures representing posterity — Descartes, Goethe, Leibniz and Voltaire — weigh in on Kircher’s legacy. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Superficially, the simulation argument bears some resemblance to the one made by René Descartes, in the seventeenth century, that there could be an undetectable “evil demon” shaping our perceptions. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He rants about Descartes, human destiny, time’s linearity, Neoplatonism, economic theory, the concertos of Alban Berg. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z As with our autonomy obsession, this extreme valuing of attention is a legacy of the Enlightenment: the flip side of Descartes’s “I think, therefore I am” is that we are what we think about. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Though brief, this is an ambitious book, offering insightful readings of authors including Homer, Dante, Descartes and Kant, as well as the novelists Herman Melville and David Foster Wallace. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z Philosophers from Descartes to Ayn Rand wrote about the interplay between psychological and physical bearing. Studied: The Right Stance Can Be Reassuring — Studied 2013-05-03T23:12:24Z By day, she wanders the woods barefoot while he drinks and reads Descartes. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Then he makes some totally unfounded and nonsensical claims, which he presents as if he were René Descartes: “Anti-God is Anti-American. Anti-American is Treason. Traitors Lead to Civil War.” 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z Descartes, the author of “Cogito, ergo sum” — “I think, therefore I am” — spent two decades living in Holland. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z This automaton language of Pinker's sounds a bit like Descartes. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z In the mid-1800s, Libri pilfered tens of thousands of precious manuscripts, tomes and documents from Italian and French libraries, including 72 letters written by the great French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France 2010-06-22T15:04:00Z This collection of what we would now call biographies is a good read, whether Aubrey is writing on Descartes or Milton or on some now-forgotten bookseller. The top 10 literary works about ancestors 2013-07-17T13:50:01Z Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z And how many dystopian thrillers give René Descartes a significant role? ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z That aside, “The Dream of Enlightenment” is an entertaining introduction to a range of daring thinkers of the long Enlightenment from Descartes to Rousseau. Seeing the light 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z I cringe to think of tutorials where esteemed experts had to suffer me as I smoked endless Gauloises in order to facilitate our discussion of Descartes. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z Rainy Descartes: “Thinking about Mondays always gets me down!” Style Invitational Week 1344: Well, that’s just great — it’s Limerixicon XVI 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Descartes revolutionized thinking about the nature of human consciousness and its relationship to external reality by attending with excruciating care to his own experience of the world. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher, coined the phrase as a means of justifying reality. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z “Seeing Descartes’ handwriting appear on my screen took my breath away.” Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z To approach their thinking about M-theory, Mr. Hawking and Mr. Mlodinow first stroll leisurely through the history of scientific thinking about the nature of our universe, from Pythagoras to Descartes, and from Heisenberg to Feynman. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z Discussing Descartes, he recalls that visitors to the great Frenchman would sometimes beg to see his mathematical instruments. Finally, a biography of the man who invented biography 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Not just any books, mind you, but the works of Plato, Descartes and Kant, Shakespeare, Marx and Freud. Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. 2011-10-10T15:48:57Z In "Descartes' Error," he demonstrates you cannot make decisions only based on rationality. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Descartes’s “Cogito, ergo sum” comes up repeatedly as a matter of crucial important in a world where artificial intelligence grows more powerful every day. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z That Mr. Descartes and especially the skilled Ms. Albergaria are devoid of movie star airs elicits our sympathy. Review: In ‘Hard Labor,’ a Brazilian Couple’s Unsettling Struggle 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Wonder, Descartes had warned, could “pervert the use of reason.” Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z For many philosophers, such a label indicates a resistance to reductive materialism without an acceptance of Cartesian dualism – René Descartes' view that in some respects, the mind stands separate from the body. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z Punning on the name of René Descartes, they are called “D’Carts.” Art in Review: Shepard Fairey, Ishiuchi Miyako, Eric Wesley, Andy Coolquitt 2010-05-21T06:00:00Z France has recovered only 45 of the 72 stolen Descartes letters, Mr. de Broglie explained. Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is 2010-02-25T05:10:00Z For Wide Open School Margaret Wertheim will lead three workshops on the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space? Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z By the time of Descartes, in the 17th century, wonder was suspect, or at least the tendency to “excessive wonder” was suspect. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He also wrote on the sixth-century philosopher Boethius, the 12th-century Spanish Arabic scholar Averroes and later thinkers and theologians, including Cardinal Newman, Kierkegaard, Pascal and Descartes. 2010-02-16T05:29:00Z It turns into something less intimate, or at least less confiding, becoming Descartes’s meditations and Pascal’s thoughts. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z What Descartes actually intended by the words "soul" and "mind" seems to me an open question for Descartes himself. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes, for instance, posited that animals don’t have a soul, therefore they don’t have a mind, therefore they are like machines. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In his theory, the impressions of the senses, integrated in this gland, were appraised by the soul, which in Descartes is a term that seems pointedly synonymous with the mind. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z In more than a dozen subsequent books, he analyzed the contributions of Einstein, Descartes and other scientists and mathematicians and demonstrated how statistics applied to everyday life — and to life beyond earth. Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z But then did Descartes ever build a vomiting machine or a clock powered by a sunflower seed, let alone design a “cat piano” played by pricking the tails of seven cats with differently pitched cries? Books of The Times: ‘A Man of Misconceptions’ by John Glassie 2012-12-30T21:22:10Z Per 17th century philosopher Descartes, the body is a machine; it’s the soul that makes us human. David Bowie, Elvis and “Blade Runner”: A fan theory to end all fan theories 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z But if idealism keeps resurfacing in Western thought, it may be because we find Descartes and Galileo’s original dismissal of the mind deeply unsatisfying. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Descartes complains that "the philosophers of the schools accept as a maxim that there is nothing in the understanding which was not previously in the senses". Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” in Paris; for years René Descartes lived in the Netherlands. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z The shelves are finished with crown moldings, atop which perch small white busts, all of which were specially chosen: George Washington, Lafayette, Pierre de Ronsard, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, Voltaire, Leibniz, Tocqueville, Descartes, Molière, and Balzac. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It is of a piece with the ideals of Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Immanuel Kant. What Data Has Done to Capitalism 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Quoting Dumas, Downie tartly remarks that the king put his own twist on Descartes: “I am so I eat.” France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Illustrated by Roz Chast, it’s a delightfully whimsical collection; “‘I think, therefore I am, declared / Descartes, while he was living,” reads the entry for the word “Am.” Playing word games with Stephin Merritt 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He believes that “being a modern worrier is just…the moth-eaten sign of being human” and playfully suggests that people should refine Descartes’s famous dictum to: “I worry, therefore I am.” Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He is a botanist in the mold of Descartes, who famously wrote that we should pursue knowledge in order to become the “masters and possessors of nature.” The National Book Awards' translated-lit longlist is here. Of course David Diop is on it 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z "The continuing drought situation in Panama may hasten that return" of cargo to the West Coast, Descartes said in its report. US West Coast ports gained market share in August after labor deal -report 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z I think that the most plausible explanation is to credit the influential French scholar René Descartes for the modern use of x. The Mysterious Origins of ‘X’ in Algebra 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Descartes tried to subject belief and doubt to a thorough logical critique, asking what he could be absolutely sure of as a philosophical starting-point. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Descartes combined deductive reasoning with empiricism, the acquisition of knowledge from sensory experiences, to establish the foundations of the scientific method. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This neurochemical comes from the pineal gland, a petite structure located in the center of the brain that philosopher René Descartes once described as the “seat of the soul” and rational thought. Should You Give Your Kid Melatonin? 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Or to be aware of the names of René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-JacquesRousseau and Voltaire? Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In an appendix to his major work “Discourse” in the 17th century, Descartes introduced a version of analytic geometry – in which algebra is used to solve geometric problems. The Mysterious Origins of ‘X’ in Algebra 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Descartes went on to follow a series of logical “proofs” from this existing, thinking being to “prove” that God Himself existed, as the original source of thought. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Literature and philosophy love pithy phrases such as “I think, therefore I am” from Frenchman René Descartes. Opinion | Earth Day cleanup lessons 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z In the 17th century Descartes, considered the father of rational sciences, associated these numbers with nonexistent features of geometric shapes. Quantum Physics Falls Apart without Imaginary Numbers 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The French Enlightenment philosopher René Descartes famously observed that every self-aware being is able to declare, figuratively if not literally, the Latin statement "Cogito ergo sum" — that is, "I think therefore I am." Ancient viruses gave us a gene called "Arc," and it may explain consciousness 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Whatever his reasons for choosing x, Descartes greatly influenced the development of mathematics, and his mathematical writings were widely circulated. The Mysterious Origins of ‘X’ in Algebra 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Descartes, personally, embraced the view that God was a benevolent and reasonable power of creation, but one who did not lower Himself to meddle in the universe. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Herold said he vividly remembered trips that he and Dr. Bluestone and a French researcher, Lucienne Chatenoud of Paris Descartes University, made to drug companies “begging them to pick this thing up.” F.D.A. Approves a Drug That Can Delay Type 1 Diabetes 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z That put the indicator close to the levels last seen in 2019, before the pandemic and a surge in demand for shipments of furniture, clothing and appliances, according to data tracked by Descartes Datamyne. U.S. container imports tumble as supply stress gives way to slack 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet ever since Descartes and the 17th century he inhabited, many philosophers and scientists have offered a number of conjectures. Ancient viruses gave us a gene called "Arc," and it may explain consciousness 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z So based on Anselm’s and Descartes’s arguments, it necessarily follows that God exists. Can God Be Proved Mathematically? 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z In Descartes’ Error, he says modern philosophers have neglected the role of emotions in thought, imagining that the goal of rational thinking is to eliminate the influence of emotions. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Many plane curves in mathematics are named after the people who first investigated them, like the folium of Descartes or the spiral of Archimedes. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z While there is evidence that ideas similar to Descartes’ grid system existed centuries earlier, it was Descartes who introduced the components that comprise the Cartesian coordinate system, a grid system having perpendicular axes. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z René Descartes famously demarcated between the mind and the body, positing that pain resided in the body while suffering lived in the heart and soul. Unlocking the mysteries of pain 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z But one video for kindergarten focuses just on the friendship between a dog named Newton and a cat named Descartes. DeSantis accused textbooks of ‘indoctrination.’ Here’s what he meant. 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z René Descartes argues that the soul or mind is the essence of the human person. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He earned his place in history on April 21, 1972, when he and Apollo 16 commander John Young stepped from their lunar module Orion onto an undulating, crater-pocked plain in the moon’s Descartes Highlands. The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Descartes named the horizontal axis the x-axis and the vertical axis the y-axis. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z While the Puritans were building their City on a Hill, Descartes worried that some evil demon was creating the complicated illusion we mistake for the physical world. Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is a mind-bending novel 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z René Descartes believed that animal spirits flowed from the brain through hollow nerves and inflated the muscles, just as hydraulic fluid traveled through machines in the royal gardens at Saint-Germain. The Father of Modern Neuroscience Discovered the Basic Unit of the Nervous System 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Descartes shows that all beliefs and memories about the external world could be false. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “We were briefed that the Descartes region was two volcanic flows, one more viscous than the other, and there was a contact in the plain,” Duke said. The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z If the polynomial is written in descending order, Descartes’ Rule of Signs tells us of a relationship between the number of sign changes in and the number of positive real zeros. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The French mathematician René Descartes reckoned that “we could never know the geometric triangle through the one we see traced on paper if our mind had not had the idea of it elsewhere.” Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The South Africa-born local artist’s “Descartes Died in the Snow” show, named for one of her mixed-media pictures on display at Morton Fine Art, both depicts and simulates nature’s fecundity. Review | In the galleries: Uncovering life’s fragility amid ecological losses 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Some people think that Descartes is a skeptic, but I will show that he goes beyond skepticism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z On the second of their three days exploring Descartes, Young picked up a four-pound chunk of bright white stone that turned out to be anorthosite, a remnant of the moon’s original crust. The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Descartes' rule of signs tells us there is one positive solution. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Another French writer of the time, René Descartes, was a brilliant thinker. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the modern era, the most influential version of the puzzle — and the one that “Reality+” most dwells upon — appears in the opening sections of René Descartes’ “Meditations.” Review | Our world might be a simulation. Would that be so bad? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In the meditations, Descartes claims that the mind and body are two different substances. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In his research and in his popular books like "Descartes' Error" and "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain," the Portuguese neuroscientist accomplishes the neat feat of making a rational case for feeling. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z If Descartes’ Rule of Signs reveals a no change of signs or one sign of changes, what specific conclusion can be drawn? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes examined the skeptical argument that one could never be certain of anything. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There, Descartes wonders how he can tell reality from a dream, and then considers the possibility of a nearly omnipotent deceiving demon that could thrust him into an ersatz existence. Review | Our world might be a simulation. Would that be so bad? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Descartes says that the mind is a substance that is distinct from the body, but I disagree. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When I wrote "Descartes' Error," which I think is 1994, I wanted to help engender a conversation that was at that point much smaller because there were fewer people involved. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z For the following exercises, use Descartes’ Rule to determine the possible number of positive and negative solutions. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Descartes used his observations and his reason to answer such arguments. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 17th century French philosopher René Descartes enumerated a theory to explain how people sense pain. Toward Better Pain Control 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Contemporary psychology has shown that Descartes is incorrect to think that human beings have free will and that the mind is something different from the brain. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z As he says in "Descartes' Error": "Feelings, along with the emotions they come from, are not a luxury." A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z For the following exercises, use Descartes’ Rule of Signs to find the possible number of positive and negative solutions. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z In France, René Descartes also took a keen interest in science. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fast moving particles of fire,” Descartes thought, would create a disturbance that “passes along the nerve filament until it reaches the brain.” Toward Better Pain Control 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes’s view of the soul is materialistic, whereas Descartes’s view of the soul is nonphysical. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps no one has been more vilified for his sentiments about and actions toward animals than René Descartes. Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Use Descartes’ Rule of Signs to determine the possible number of positive and negative solutions. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Like Bacon, Descartes believed that scientists needed to reject old assumptions and teachings. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To Descartes, this sort of reflexive behavior suggested that animals were “automata,” essentially mindless machines that lacked the subjective experience of a conscious self. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Hermeneutics rejects both the absolute power of rational thought propagated by Descartes and the empiricism promoted by other Enlightenment thinkers. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Animals’ feelings, even if present, were morally irrelevant to Descartes, who attempted to prove his point by subjecting dogs and rabbits to exquisite torture. Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Complex numbers were invented by people and represent over a thousand years of continuous investigation and struggle by mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Descartes, De Moivre, Euler, Gauss, and others. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Rather than using experimentation, Descartes relied on mathematics and logic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Descartes would call me crazy for thinking this; to him, the cats are responding only to the sound of the can opening and the smell of the slop, all reflex and no higher-order experience. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Nearly two millennia after Zhuang Zhou, René Descartes also proposed a dream hypothesis. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Yet the 3 Rs framework allows for experiments that parallel those performed by Descartes—if the cruel character of the research can be justified in the name of science. Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z During the 17th century Enlightenment, philosopher René Descartes famously argued for a so-called "dualist" approach to explaining how our mind interacts with our body. Panpsychism, the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness, gains steam in science communities 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Modern scientific methods are based on the ideas of Bacon and Descartes. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern scholarship has pretty much undone Descartes’s view. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z And so, Descartes devises an even stronger skeptical hypothesis: what if we are being tricked by an evil demon? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Four hundred years after Descartes, isn’t it time? Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z "What Descartes was making very rigorous was the philosophy of Galileo," Goff explained, citing his book "Galileo's Error." Panpsychism, the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness, gains steam in science communities 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Four centuries ago, René Descartes famously conceptualized the mind as being separate from the body. Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Given how little we know about the phenomenon, it would be myopic to suppose that machines could never attain consciousness — as naïve as it was for Descartes to conclude that animals aren’t conscious. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Why does Descartes claim we can’t have knowledge if we cannot rule out the evil demon hypothesis? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The company operates six cable ships, with one vessel, the René Descartes, able to lay up to 6,000km of cable. Tech giants fight 'cloud wars' deep in the ocean 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z To understand that, we must go back in time to the 17th century, when the French-born philosopher René Descartes argued that it was "the principal seat of the soul." How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” becomes in effect for Goffman, “I act, therefore I belong.” As we return to normal, a new plague: stage fright in the theater of daily life 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z In view of my permanent status as a student of nature, I prefer to reformulate René Descartes’ insight “I think, therefore I am” into: “I am a scientist, therefore I learn by observing nature.” Scientists Should Never Stop Being Students 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Descartes’s famous quote “I think therefore I am” insists that we know what we know due to abstract reason. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z To test the strength of his position, Descartes imagined the workings of an evil entity — a malignum genium, or evil genius — capable of creating an entirely illusory but completely convincing artificial world. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z "I cannot find any part of the brain, except this, which is not double," Descartes wrote. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z To the contrary, history demonstrates that polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla were all responsible for foundational breakthroughs in science. The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The Enlightenment philosopher Descartes theorized in 1649 about the origins of the “strange aversions” produced by fear. Perspective | Five myths about fear 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Some of the data tapped by Colorado and other states comes from Descartes Labs, an analytics firm based in Santa Fe, N.M. Governments around the world are trying a new weapon against coronavirus: Your smartphone 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Although its powers appeared absolute, Descartes’ demon couldn’t corrode all sources of certainty. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Scientists today, not surprisingly, reject Descartes' belief that the mind somehow exists independently of the body and is connected through this one gland. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z The seventeenth-century French mathematician René Descartes, for example, wrote of employing science and human knowledge so that "we can... render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature." Avenger planet: Is the COVID-19 pandemic Mother Nature’s response to human transgression? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “It looks like it splits humanity into two, the strong and the weak,” said Michela Marzano, a professor of moral philosophy at the Paris Descartes University. In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The State Forestry Division will be getting real-time alerts via a satellite tracking system designed by the Santa Fe-based startup Descartes Labs. New Mexico to tap satellite tracking during wildfire season 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Hence, Descartes’ absolute trust in the formula of his famous “cogito”: I think, therefore I am. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z They also have done a much better job understanding its distinct physiology than Descartes ever did. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z In the seventeenth century, the French philosopher René Descartes imagined an animal brain acting through hydraulic mechanisms, while maintaining a view of the divine nature of a mind separate from matter. Neuroscience needs some new ideas 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z On Monday, the New York Times posted GPS data from a firm called Descartes Labs for March 11 through 20. Perspective | Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not) 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “Descartes was impressed by the hydraulic figures in the royal gardens, and developed a hydraulic theory of the action of the brain,” Lashley wrote. Why your brain is not a computer 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Did Descartes really worry that an evil genius might be deceiving him? Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Descartes' fascination with the pineal gland as a link between our bodies and souls captivated philosophers. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Descartes and Soviet planning can be put in the same box because they’re both about people deciding things, and that’s so last millennium. Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Or is the anthropocentrism here to think that consciousness is restricted to human beings, as Descartes famously asserted, and perhaps to some nonhuman animals too? Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Credit: Descartes Labs Using machine learning to process geospatial imagery is an extremely common practice. US announces AI software export restrictions for China 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Poised between wild fantasy and thought experiment, Descartes’ demon is only the first of many such creatures to appear in Jimena Canales’s bestiary “Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.” Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Descartes was not the only major philosopher to locate significance in the pineal gland. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z In the 17th century, philosopher René Descartes discussed the ability of blind people to sense their surroundings through their walking cane. The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Descartes Labs and Planet Labs are using imaging analysis for fire weather prediction. Weather is turning into big business. And that could be trouble for the public. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z To be sure, we have ruled out René Descartes’ notion that the pineal gland linked body and mind. Review | Do we have moral obligations to a machine that achieves consciousness? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The opening chapters of “Bedeviled” illustrate this dynamic as they deftly sprint through centuries of scientific history in the course of introducing the aforementioned demons of Descartes, Laplace and Maxwell. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z She specifically praised Descartes, arguing that "unscientific as this may appear in our day of exact learning, Descartes was yet far nearer the occult truth" than those who criticized his theories. How the pineal gland became an obsession for both spiritualists and sci-fi writers 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z This highly symmetric, cage-like shape was first described by Archimedes, and the rules that guide the topology of polyhedra were first developed by Descartes. The nano-revolution spawned by carbon 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z René Descartes, arguably the first Western philosopher to write about consciousness, consciousness, asserted the dualist perspective that the mind is fundamentally separate from physical matter. Why We Need to Study Consciousness 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z As Descartes said, your own consciousness is your private but undeniable demonstration that you exist—it is in that sense even more fundamental than matter. Be Careful with Occam’s Razor, You Might Cut Yourself 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Even real-life versions of Laplace’s and Descartes’ demons appeared on the horizon. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The book is a roll call of luminaries, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat. From counting with stones to artificial intelligence: the story of calculus 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z “I rapidly got the conviction that the location and organization of the immune reaction is very important,” says Fridman, who is now an emeritus professor at the Medical School Paris Descartes. Cellular censuses to guide cancer care 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z His ideas are informed by Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher and a former astrologer who has attracted a following with eccentric interpretations of works by Machiavelli, Descartes, and others. Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z This particular map is one version of a series of images that Descartes Labs released earlier in February, first reported by Axios. Air pollution shines from this alarming map 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Descartes’ evil genius, too, became more concrete once one granted that a neuroscientist might somehow “intercept all inputs leading to your brain, hijacking the source of your sensory impressions.” Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z A few years later, Leibniz, “the most versatile genius in a century of geniuses that included Descartes, Galileo, Newton and Bach”, came up with his own methods. From counting with stones to artificial intelligence: the story of calculus 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z French natural philosopher and priest Pierre Gassendi sought to revive ancient atomism in a Christian framework, whereas philosopher René Descartes proposed an entirely mechanistic universe based on contiguous point particles. More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Descartes and other companies are still searching for the best ways to use this new trove of information. ‘Businesses Will Not Be Able to Hide’: Spy Satellites May Give Edge From Above 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Rossellini wears costumes too, in her case to play historical figures such as Aristotle and René Descartes and to be ringmaster in this circus of ideas. Answering the call of the wild with Isabella Rossellini and her ‘Link Link Circus’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave? Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Derived from philosopher René Descartes, it’s used generically to mean “logical” or “rational”. 'Victor Hugo becomes a sex god in my mind' – how to get better at French 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the hiring of Gonzales by Descartes Labs is raising eyebrows in the city over ethics. Lab hiring of ex-Santa Fe mayor after grant raising eyebrows 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson, of Descartes Labs, acknowledged that satellite data is not always as useful as it seems to be. ‘Businesses Will Not Be Able to Hide’: Spy Satellites May Give Edge From Above 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z He peered at an image from Apollo 16, in 1972, of a family snapshot placed on the surface of the Descartes Highlands by the astronaut Charles Duke. What Would Damien Chazelle Weigh on the Moon? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Leftist scholars—and nonscholars too, increasingly—put her in the pantheon of thinkers whose names every educated person should recognize: Plato, Descartes, Marx. Opinion | A Prophet for the ‘Social Justice’ Movement 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Descartes often gets credit for posing it first, but Socrates pondered it millennia earlier, as did Buddha and other Eastern sages. Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes treated physical sensations with great suspicion, in contrast to rational principles belonging to the mind. How feelings took over the world 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “Businesses will not be able to hide from competitors or regulators or watchdogs,” said Mark Johnson, chief executive and co-founder of Descartes Labs, another satellite information start-up. ‘Businesses Will Not Be Able to Hide’: Spy Satellites May Give Edge From Above 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Lorde advised all women to listen to the “black mother” within them, who she believed countered Descartes with: “I feel, therefore I can be free.” 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Weinberg offers a curious panorama that demotes certain canonical figures, such as Democritus, Francis Bacon and René Descartes. Ideal witness: a physicist takes on the world 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z During the Enlightenment, thinkers such as Newton and Descartes replaced the ancients’ organic concept of order with a mechanistic view. David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes was reputedly fond of automata: they inspired his view that living things were biological machines that function like clockwork. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z For much of his career, Dr. Cavell focused on philosophical skepticism, following Descartes and others in asking how we know whether the world is real, or how we might ever truly know another person. Stanley Cavell, philosopher who drew insights from Shakespeare and cinema, dies at 91 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The seeds for this idea can be traced back to Descartes, but Chalmers really ran with it in his 1996 book, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Out of their minds: wild ideas at the ‘Coachella of consciousness’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Similarly, Bacon and Descartes, although sometimes scientifically misguided by today’s standards, were vastly important for ushering in the mechanical thinking that Weinberg himself practises. Ideal witness: a physicist takes on the world 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Even a little Virgil and Descartes along the way. Tom Wolfe Had the Right Stuff 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “Gender-based discrimination towards girls doesn’t simply prevent them from being born, it may also precipitate the death of those who are born,” said study co-author Christophe Guilmoto of the Paris Descartes University. 240,000 girls a year die in India due to gender discrimination, study finds 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z He dived into the “new sciences”, reading the works of Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon and René Descartes. The forgotten founder of ornithology 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Can he legitimately be ranked alongside Nietzsche, Descartes and Kant? A philosopher rates Kanye West's tweets 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Since this method worked in mathematics, Descartes had insisted, it could be applied to all other disciplines. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Hiring in the sector accounted for nearly six in ten placements at information technology recruiter Descartes Search in the year to March, company director Pascal Hideki Hamonic said, up from 15 percent a year earlier. Japan's cryptocurrency exchanges face shortage of engineers 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In April 1648, a young admirer of René Descartes visited the French philosopher at his estate on the Dutch coast. From meat to mind: the root of consciousness 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Plato, as well as so-called rationalist philosophers such as René Descartes, believed in a top-down approach to learning—and it played a big role in early AI. An AI That Knows the World Like Children Do 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The name Deckard, for instance, echoes that of seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes, who asked whether it was possible to distinguish, without direct access to their minds, a human from an automaton. Where Bladerunner began: 50 years of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The first warning of this was Descartes’s 1644 magnum opus, “The Principles of Philosophy,” which claimed to reach a final determination of the nature of the universe by moving from self-evident premises through infallible deductions. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Descartes often gets credit with being the first thinker to worry about the connection between mind and matter. Who Invented the Mind–Body Problem? 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Descartes conceded that the question was thorny, but pointed to the evidence that they do — for instance, in emotion. From meat to mind: the root of consciousness 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Thinkers such as Descartes and Noam Chomsky suggested that you are born with them firmly in place, but do you really come into this world knowing how greed and deception lead to cons? An AI That Knows the World Like Children Do 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Along with Charlies Duke Jr., he landed in the Descartes Highlands on April 21st, where they spent three days on the lunar surface. Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle astronaut John Young has died 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Yet Descartes’s masterpiece took Europe by storm and for decades was the main textbook of the Cartesian school of science. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The Catholic Church condemned the writings of René Descartes because his emphasis on the quantifiable was seen as incompatible with this doctrine. History: Science and the Reformation : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The mystery lies in the mechanism, and this, Descartes confided, was perhaps best left to theologians. From meat to mind: the root of consciousness 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “If you are an Islamist, he brings you Koranic verses; if you’re a Marxist, he’ll talk to you about Marxist-Leninist theory, dialectics and Descartes,” the article quoted Mr. al-Rubaie as saying. Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq’s First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z “If you are an Islamist, he brings you Koranic verses; if you’re a Marxist, he’ll talk to you about Marxist-Leninist theory, dialectics and Descartes,” Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq’s First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Hence, I think that Plato, Kand and Descartes would turn aside Mills's insight as trivial or irrelevant. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The mechanical philosophy of Descartes and others became the intellectual underpinning of much of the new science in the second half of the seventeenth century, but was always suspect in Catholic countries. History: Science and the Reformation : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Once again we seem to hear what Burman heard, 370 years ago: a sigh of resignation, as Descartes indicated that it might all be better left to the theologians. From meat to mind: the root of consciousness 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Also, she describes Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs as “a twenty-first century Rene Descartes.” Review | Katy Tur’s insider memoir chronicles the Trump campaign — and the indignities of reporting while female 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But for Descartes and his intellectual colleagues, philosophical, scientific, even moral and political truth and progress was a matter of rational and empirical inquiry, not fealty to authority. How to Fix American Stupidity 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Foer draws on numerous historical tech innovations, from Descartes’ automatons to Western Union’s cozy relationship with the Associated Press, to offer the early templates for modern Big Tech practices. Franklin Foer's 'World Without Mind' argues that Silicon Valley will lead us to our doom 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The only thing immune to such scepticism, Descartes claimed, was his own existence as a thinking thing. What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Descartes Labs collects data daily from public and commercial imagery providers, aggregating the images into a single database. Forecasting Outbreaks—1 Image at a Time 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It is the abyss of Descartes translated to tell a story of America’s original sin of subjugating the continent’s native peoples. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wind River’ more an indictment of U.S. Indian policy than murder mystery 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z They are making a crucial decision not on the basis of what Descartes called "clear and distinct" evidence, but on prejudice, hearsay and, of course, those passions of hope and fear. How to Fix American Stupidity 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Does it begin to philosophize about minds existing in addition to bodies, like Descartes? Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In 2015, a group at Paris Descartes University experimentally demonstrated that when bacteria exchange certain plasmids, the plasmids reprogram the recipient bacteria with genetic information that compels them to contribute to the common good. Can Microbes Encourage Altruism? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Descartes Labs’ satellite data platform coupled with Los Alamos’ unique capabilities in remote sensing, high-performance computing, epidemiology, genomics and mathematics will help us find the answers. Forecasting Outbreaks—1 Image at a Time 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z As a society, we are finally recognizing that the world’s non-human species are not the automatons that Rene Descartes insisted they were – a view that tainted animal science for centuries. Rewilding Mozambique – funded in part by trophy hunting 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z François Fillon belittled Macron for daring to deny Descartes, Molière, Chateaubriand and Proust, as well as the educators who “teach our children to speak the language of France, rather than that of the streets.” Can a New Generation in the Banlieues Change French Politics? 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The deal, announced last week, means ShipRush will become part of the global logistics network division of Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes, which develops software to manage logistics and supply chains. Seattle software firm ShipRush bought by Descartes for $14M 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Could Sir Isaac Newton's revelation about gravity after an apple fell on his head, and Descartes' observation that "I think, therefore I am", be called examples of autoethnography? 'Mesearch' - when study really is all about me - BBC News 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Dennett blames the philosopher Rene Descartes for permanently polluting our thinking about how we think about the human mind. Is consciousness just an illusion? - BBC News 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Recall that Descartes was a mathematician and logician. Don’t think of a rampaging elephant: Linguist George Lakoff explains how the Democrats helped elect Trump 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Descartes’ point, said Seidman, “was that it was our ability to ‘think’ that most distinguished humans from all other animals on earth.” From hands to heads to hearts 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The emergence of language as a system of creative thought was sensed by Descartes and Galileo. Noam Chomsky and the Bicycle Theory 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Following his tidal day, he traces the science of tides and the challenges to understand it, which taxed many of the great scientific minds, including Galileo and Descartes. ‘The Tide’: first-rate examination of ‘the greatest force on earth’ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Descartes couldn't imagine how a machine could be capable of thinking, feeling and imagining. Is consciousness just an illusion? - BBC News 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Begin, Descartes wrote, by doubting absolutely everything you know, think, and perceive; assume that it is all delusive, as in a dream. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z On Aug. 9, Descartes delivered its 2016 U.S. corn production forecast, based on analysis of one petabyte of imagery and data—1 million gigabytes—that was run through a cluster of 30,000 computer processors. Satellites: Hedge Funds’ Eye in the Sky 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z “Nowadays, when people say Europe, they do not mean Sophocles, or Descartes, or Bach, or Roman law,” Mr. Legutko said in a telephone interview. 'We Don’t Need to Be Alone’: A Political Shift Has Poland Assessing Its Values 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Descartes, which launched in 2013, began releasing corn yield estimates ahead of the USDA's August crop report last year. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Gallagher demonstrated no awareness of this issue, which has troubled philosophers at least since the time of Descartes. The self-possessed psychiatrist Richard Gallagher should exorcise his delusions 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The more that the new science seemed to confirm Descartes’s mechanical picture of the universe, the more necessary it became to ask what matter and mind really were and how they fit together. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The book is published posthumously so that Descartes can avoid the wrath of the Church, which teaches that pain is a gift from God. Painful progress : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z French philosopher René Descartes proposes the theory of dualism: the spirit and body are distinct entities. Transit time : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But big data and machine learning are just one side of the equation with Descartes. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But Descartes and the rationalists insisted that some knowledge was innate, prefigured into the mind of every newborn child. Science of Consciousness Conference Is Carnival of the Mind 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Certainly, both Descartes and Leibniz relied on God to balance the equation of the universe. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z French philosopher René Descartes proposes specific pain pathways from the point of origin to the brain; the concept holds for 300 years. Painful progress : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z I often joke, although sometimes I don’t actually find it funny, that René Descartes’ famous saying for me would translate into “I record, therefore I am.” The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist's Life 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Planet, which is formal partners with Descartes, provides it with data to calculate yield estimates and helps it build custom products for corporate clients. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes wrote that “all deception or fraud involves some imperfection.” When Lies Are Allowed in a Business Deal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Descartes had no use for such a tale, which raised far more questions than it answered. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The next image, of a dissected brain, was drawn by the French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes. The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain - BBC News 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z But though he felt that Descartes’s version seemed closer to reality, he was aware the details were lacking. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Descartes, he says, aims to "understand our natural resources, understanding how those resources move around, and then how we as humans change the planet." This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Paris Descartes University researchers exposed participants to positive, negative or neutral stereotypes and noted how often they asked for experimenters' help while completing a task, versus being confident enough to proceed independently. Ageism, Attitude and Health 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z These were the questions that animated the philosophers discussed by Gottlieb, starting with Descartes. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Descartes' thinking - of a separation of body and soul - played well with the world's major religions, including Christianity. The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain - BBC News 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Descartes carried this mechanical view of the world into what he hoped would be a great treatise on physiology. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It beat the accuracy of the USDA's 2015 August predictions by a percentage point, according to numbers provided by Descartes. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z French President Francois Hollande inaugurated the world-class collection Thursday, which includes the skull of French philosopher Rene Descartes alongside the skull of a Neanderthal man. After a 6-year closure, Paris' Mankind Museum reopens in a costly 92 million euro renovation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Gottlieb observes that Descartes would have been disappointed to know that he gave rise to a whole new era of philosophy. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Descartes thought that the brain was a kind of hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body. Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z For Buffon as it was for Descartes, life wasn’t especially different from any other phenomenon found in nature. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Descartes uses spectral information, not visible to the human eye to measure chlorophyll levels. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It was the Age of Enlightenment, when great iconoclastic thinkers such as Descartes, Locke and Newton emerged, changing our understanding of consciousness, politics and physics. History Rife With Disastrous Consequences Of Abandoning Gold Standard 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Where Descartes and Spinoza tried to come to grips with reality through purely deductive logic, the conventional story goes, Locke and Hume valued the evidence of the senses. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Enlightenment philosophers such as Descartes measured identity in terms of readily observable phenomenon. ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Caitlyn Jenner, gender and the ‘post’-postmodern era 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z He was a materialist who saw the world much as Descartes did. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Descartes' crop identification algorithm layered on top of Planet's satellite image. This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Descartes’ cogito ergo sum broke new philosophical ground by locating the source of all certain knowledge in the thinking self, and providing an account of human understanding that was independent of God. From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers gone? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Descartes abolished this distinction, holding, instead, that everything physical that exists is simply matter in space. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Referencing Descartes’ Method of Doubt, he explains how his distrust of the regime grew, eventually drawing him inexorably to a life online. The Syrian Satirist Making Graffiti in Solidarity With Charlie Hebdo Descartes’s great contribution to the natural sciences was to use his principles of deduction to understand a world whose workings, in his eyes, resembled that of a machine. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The fathers of the Enlightenment, Francis Bacon & Renee Descartes, proposed a rational approach to science that would free them from ignorance. Health Care's Age of Enlightenment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z After all, both remain dependent on a tangible mind/body split that was handed down to us by the philosopher René Descartes. Playful Education In The Age Of Video Games, Binary Thinking, And Social Media 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But here most people believe that Descartes went astray. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In other words, the Descartes solution is not just flexible, it is also scalable. US LBM Implements an Electronic Delivery Management System to Improve Customer Service While Cutting Logistics Costs 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The theory was an old one, but it had gained traction in the late seventeenth century as a response to the theories of one of the most important thinkers of all time, René Descartes. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z At 383 pages, it attempted to tie together the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, while roping in ideas from Descartes, Dostoyevsky, Hegel, Hume, Socrates and Spinoza. Walter Isaacson Reviews Henry Kissinger's New Book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Descartes ideas enable those who consider themselves to be the most open-minded to tell us that change starts within the individual. Playful Education In The Age Of Video Games, Binary Thinking, And Social Media 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z “God’s guarantee is not worth the paper Descartes wrote it on,” Gottlieb quips. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The Descartes solution’s ability to support this was one example of why Senthil considered this a flexible solution. US LBM Implements an Electronic Delivery Management System to Improve Customer Service While Cutting Logistics Costs 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In the end, Descartes had settled on a theory that was purely physical, though the details were always sketchy. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z At one point he declared, “Descartes’ cogito ergo sum was not really necessary.” Walter Isaacson Reviews Henry Kissinger's New Book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Jordan: You once wrote a book called Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind. 5 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Math 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And, if God doesn’t exist, then all Descartes has done is leave the individual trapped “in a prison of his own ideas,” unable to prove that what he experiences has any basis in external reality. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In the 17th century, Descartes described animals as automatons, a view that held sway for centuries. ‘Animal Madness’: A Look at Tense Dogs, Elephants and More 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Descartes famously wrote that “the reason why animals do not speak as we do is not that they lack the organs but that they have no thoughts.” Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z René Descartes thought the entire discipline — up until his arrival, at least — had failed to make any important progress. Why Not Just Weigh the Fish? 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z But it’s a very important beginning – just ask Descartes. Why you should care that a chatbot just impersonated a 13-year-old boy In Hume’s view, Descartes’s program of demolishing the world through doubt and then rebuilding it through logic is bound to fail. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Ph.D., of Paris Descartes University, France, the study’s lead investigator, said Friday. Bluebird Stock Rockets On Gene Therapy Results 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “Whom did Descartes consult before making his declaration?” Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award. Bill Bryson: A Champion of Science and Science Communication 2014-05-08T13:35:00Z Descartes tried to deduce the universe from first principles. Books: ‘Our Mathematical Universe’: A Case for Alternate Realities 2014-04-21T21:25:54Z Born in 1596, Descartes was what at the time would have been called a “natural philosopher,” or what we would call a scientist. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Darwin came along during a time when animals, thanks largely to the writings of French philosopher René Descartes, were viewed as reflex-driven machines with nary a mind in their heads. How Smart Is That Doggy in the Window? 2014-04-13T09:45:34Z Seated in a wheelchair in a glassed-in defendant’s box, Simbikangwa flipped through handwritten notes as he invoked the memory of the “great men who built France” and cited philosophers Descartes and Montesquieu. Rwandan Ex-Intel Chief Convicted in Genocide Trial 2014-03-14T22:10:28Z Conventional thinking going back to Descartes, or Socrates, or Plato, produces dialogues where ideas are dealt by participants rather like cards in a poker game. Let's think about ideas 2014-03-12T00:30:37Z Frank Wilczek of M.I.T., a Nobel Prize winner in physics, would retire the distinction between mind and matter, a bedrock notion, at least in the West, since the time of Descartes. Out There: Over the Side With Old Scientific Tenets 2014-01-14T05:11:08Z This rumor was a fitting one, since Descartes argued for a thoroughly mechanistic view of nature. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z My basic hypothesis to get into the soul of Beckham is to echo Descartes and to think that he thinks. David Beckham inspires philosophy 2013-10-23T02:33:58Z Though, Descartes was responsible for discovering the mechanical properties of light; he believed in corpuscularism. And Let There Be "Molecules" of Light 2013-10-14T20:45:24.920Z For Plato, the mental world was the real world, while Descartes argued that mind and matter were distinct. When Philosophy Meets Psychiatry 2013-08-11T13:00:11Z Some, like Descartes, maintained that the difference lay with the capacity for language. Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at ‘Nonhuman Personhood’ and Animal Welfare 2013-07-28T19:54:00Z Another way of putting this is that Descartes described reality in terms of qualities that can be measured mathematically. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Descartes wrote, “I think, therefore I am”; we can graduate to “thinking, therefore being”. Summer books 2013-07-11T15:50:23.720Z Since Descartes, several scientists have studied this phenomena and have become more curious about light. And Let There Be "Molecules" of Light 2013-10-14T20:45:24.920Z The Vatican can bury Descartes without sacrificing the integrity of the soul. The Vatican And Evolution: Once More, With Caveats 2013-05-09T13:49:39Z French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed this idea in 1637, which translates to “I think, therefore I am.” Use The P Of Storytelling To Grow Your Small Business 2013-04-22T21:40:37Z Descartes himself was a towering mathematician, but he was far from the first philosopher to regard mathematics as the gold standard of truth: Pythagoras and Plato had done so two thousand years before. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Janet: Around the same time, I read two pivotal books, Descartes’ Error and . 4 Ways You Can Innovate Better, According to Neuroscience 2013-03-29T15:39:22Z Newton”s theory of light was based on Descartes. And Let There Be "Molecules" of Light 2013-10-14T20:45:24.920Z During the Enlightenment, the French philosopher René Descartes, a founder of modern science, declared that animals were soulless automatons. The Brains of the Animal Kingdom 2013-03-23T03:08:08Z Today Descartes might have modified his philosophy to “I think and speak, therefore I am.” Use The P Of Storytelling To Grow Your Small Business 2013-04-22T21:40:37Z From this fixed basis, Descartes believed that he could infallibly deduce another crucial principle: the existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z As Descartes didn't quite say: "Googlito ergo sum" – I am on Google, therefore I am. Can Googling be racist? 2013-02-05T13:00:51Z Actually, now more than ever we need philosophers, especially skeptics like Socrates, Descartes, Thomas Kuhn and Nagel, who seek to prevent us from becoming trapped in the cave of our beliefs. Is Scientific Materialism "Almost Certainly False"? 2013-01-30T14:15:00.203Z She wrote her first book at 24 and later published seven books in seven years, including an essay on Descartes and a novel on infanticide. The Saturday Profile: Mazarine Pingeot, Mitterrand Daughter, Looks Back 2012-12-01T01:00:42Z Or do we start with René Descartes and his contemplations of the nature of consciousness and thought? The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z Indeed, Descartes never found a satisfying solution to the problem of how mind and matter interact. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z It illustrates what sheer thought – aided by data of course – can reveal about the workings of the universe and it continues a trend that lists Descartes, Hume, Galileo and Newton among its illustrious forebears. The Higgs boson and the future of science 2012-07-23T17:45:18.780Z René Descartes: He not only significantly contributed in mathematics, but his philosophy also interests me. 30 under 30: Working on Small Scales to Solve Huge Energy Challenges 2012-06-19T11:15:03.787Z The father of reductionism, French philosopher René Descartes, wrote about the need to investigate the parts and then reassemble them to re-create the whole. A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain (preview) 2012-06-11T11:15:05.990Z From the mid-16th to the mid-20th centuries, the Vatican maintained an Index of Prohibited Books which eventually included everybody from Descartes to Galileo to Simone de Beauvoir. Sister Farley’s revenge: Want to popularize a book? Ban it. 2012-06-06T21:50:00Z But while science achieved amazing things in the years after Descartes—this was the age of Newton’s discovery of gravity and Boyle’s invention of modern chemistry—philosophy did not fall mute. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In erecting a complete theory of Evolution on a purely scientific basis “his profound and vigorous writings,” to quote Huxley, “embody the spirit of Descartes in the knowledge of our own day.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z How believe that since the days of Descartes the human intellect has gone mad? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The fact of Descartes’ existence was, to him, one above and beyond all logic. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z For three centuries, down to the time of Descartes, Lull was considered a leader of the intellect, and his books were recommended by the universities of Europe. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The next step in logical order was to find a basic explanation of the planetary motions, and Descartes and his theory of vortices are worthy of mention, among many unsuccessful attempts in this direction. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z No one believes, at the present date, with Descartes, that the animals are automata. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Say that, we at least admit with Descartes the reality of extension. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z As stated by Descartes, the argument stands something as follows:—God is an allperfect Being, perfection is the idea which we form of Him, existence is a mode of perfection, and therefore God exists. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Not only orthodox believers yield her this pre�minence: Leibnitz read and deeply admired her; a recent French critic of the skeptic school compares her to Descartes. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z We have passed over the name of Descartes, almost contemporary with Galileo, the founder of modern dynamics, but his initiation of one of the greatest improvements of mathematical method cannot be overlooked. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The French Government, despite the influence of aristocratic friends, refused to print a work opposed to the system of Descartes, and the volume had to be printed in Holland. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z It is from this solid and immovable foundation laid by Descartes at the entrance of science that we may set out to extend the sphere of our knowledge. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Descartes himself is reported to have said, “my theory of vortices is a philosophical romance.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Descartes, in modern times, maintained that a vital flame existed in the heart of every animal. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibnitz have all indicated God as this nexus. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z He visited Paris, resided for a time at Rheims and then settled at La Fl�che, famous in the history of philosophy as the school of Descartes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Here, then, we have, without possibility of mistake, the fundamental doctrine of the spiritualistic philosophy of Descartes, Leibnitz, Maine de Biran, and Jouffroy. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z It is more than possible that if the needs of life had compelled him, Descartes’ scientific predilections might have resulted in more immediate advantage to society. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Thus Descartes, who fondly loved a girl who squinted, was always affected with strabismus when speaking of her. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Especially keen became the interest in the skull and brain in which, as Descartes taught, might be found the seat of the soul. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Harvey, then, and other naturalists of the time, including Cæsalpinus and after a fashion even Descartes, followed the medieval world and Aristotle in deriving the source of motion directly from the spheres. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z Descartes did not hesitate to place the existence of bodies in doubt, in order to save the existence of spirit. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Descartes, doctrine of innate ideas ascribed to, 15. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z In physics, Descartes had prepared the way for the final triumph of the mechanical explanation of the world in Newton’s system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z In a separate report published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists at the University Paris Descartes in France helped bolster the link between short-term exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular disease. Well Blog: Air Pollution Linked to Heart and Brain Risks 2012-02-15T15:31:54Z Did he ever hear of Descartes, of Laplace, of Spinoza? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z All that God told Moses, admitting the entire account to be true, is dust and ashes compared to the discoveries of Descartes, Laplace, and Humboldt. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Descartes announced to the world the sublime truth that the Universe is governed by law. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z A famous period in the history of the cycloid is marked by a bitter controversy which sprang up between Descartes and Roberval. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z We had no less harmonious theories from Descartes, Leibnitz, Fichte, and Schopenhauer. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Am also reading a work of Kuno Fischer on "Philosophy," especially relating to Descartes. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The physical explanation of halos originated with Ren� Descartes, who ascribed their formation to the presence of ice-crystals in the atmosphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Descartes was right: the first step of the human mind desirous of confirming to itself the sense of its own worth and dignity is an essentially religious act. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Descartes in the G�om�trie defined and considered the remarkable curves called after him the ovals of Descartes, or simply Cartesians, which will be again referred to. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The mistake of Descartes, for example, and of all the Atomists, was of this last description. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Of interest for centuries, the delicacy and variability of frozen precipitation was even studied by the likes of Johannes Kepler and René Descartes. Winter Wonders: The Science of Cold 2011-12-26T19:45:08.647Z The great Descartes died in a foreign land from church persecution. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z You find them combined in various degrees in antiquity, in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; in modern times, in Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Kant, Claude Bernard, and Pasteur. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The spirit which Descartes and Leibnitz illustrated seems likely soon to become, in a new and higher sense, prominent in science. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It was implicitly involved in the sceptical reflections from which Descartes started. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z St. Hilaire does not believe in the Christian religion, but he has Descartes's philosophic belief in God, and the elevated morality of the Stoics. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z As far as I can tell it’s just an assertion of Descartes, who had to distinguish man sharply from beasts because of the Inquisition’s interest in theological problems about free will . Dr. Dove's Unicorns 2011-11-29T23:15:05.883Z Another class of twelve or fourteen, in the same year, on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz, met in one of the 'tower rooms' of Sever Hall, sitting around a table. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Rejecting the famous Cogito ergo sum of Descartes, he fell back when in doubt on his "habitual anodyne": "I feel therefore I exist." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z From this Descartes deduced the doctrine that the will, which, according to him, is indifferently free, is the source of sin, and also of all theoretical error. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Descartes proves his own existence to himself by the fact that he thinks. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z To be sure, cognitive scientists weren’t dualists like Descartes – they didn’t actually believe that the mind was physically separate from the body – but they didn’t think that the body influenced cognition. A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain. 2011-11-04T14:45:00.257Z His frequent and prolonged stays in France, his disputes with Descartes, his relations with Mersenne and Sorbière, contributed to his fame. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Because Clavius was politely skeptical of Galileo’s arguments in favor of a sun-centered universe, he is usually dismissed as a close-minded holdover of the obscurantist Aristotelian philosophical tradition against which Galileo, Descartes and Kepler struggled. A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution 2011-11-02T15:11:35Z The will indeed came to be regarded as an act of thought, and to be identified with the judgment, especially by Descartes and Spinoza. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z |
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