Explains what Descartes doubted, and why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy.

The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy f

Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosophe

Philosophy Through Film offers a uniquely engaging and effective approach to introductory philosophy by combining an anthology of classical and contemporary phi

Descartes's concept of the mind, as distinct from the body with which it forms a union, set the agenda for much of Western philosophy's subsequent reflection on