Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great?
René Descartes(1596-1650) was a French scientist, philosopher and mathematician. He was the developer of analytic geometry. The Cartesian coordinate system used algebra to describe geometrical figures.
In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses the first and second meditations from Rene Descartes’ 1641 book, Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes asks” Of what can I be certain?” and reaches a negative conclusion.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.