Descartes – An Introduction

René Descartes is one of the formative figures in Western philosophy, logic and mathematics. His famous statement: ‘I think, therefore I am’, has become perhaps the most famous phrase in all of philosophy. Descartes’s ground-breaking writings attempted to establish unshakeable foundations of knowledge, and set a trend for subsequent Western philosophy, which has endlessly critiqued and expanded upon his ideas. Author - Ross Burman. Narrator - Jonathan Oliver. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023. Copyright - © 2009 Ross Burman ©.