Rene Descartes
Recommended reading:
Reading RatCriticism (articles, essays, reviews):
Think Again: What did Descartes really know? by Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, November 20, 2006
Descartes’s Paradoxical Politics, by Quentin Taylor, Humanitas 2001 No. 2
A funny-peculiar mind-body picture: Steven Shapin delves into the intellectual, as well as the rather more material, concerns of Rene Descartes, review of
Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes, by Richard A Watson, London Review of Books, January 20, 2003
Therefore I am, by Heller McAlpin, review of
Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes, by Richard Watson, Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2002