1637: Descartes publishes his Discourse on the Method for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, the source of the famous quote, "I think, therefore I am." He outlines his rules ...
THE year 1936 marked the tricentenary of Descartes' “Discourse on Method”, so Prof. Roth's study is both timely and welcome. A turning point in European thought, the “Discourse” has a story of its own ...
“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am” – is probably the most famous line ever uttered by a philosopher, and likely the only Latin some Americans know. So today, on what would have been the ...