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René Descartes
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
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Benjamin Wiker
Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing Vol. 2
by
Fred Van Lente
The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers
by
Stuart Hampshire
America's First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735--1918
by
Richard Brookhiser
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Brief Lives
by
John Aubrey
Brief lives,: And other selected writings (The Cresset library)
by
John Aubrey
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
by
John Cottingham
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology
by
Edmund Husserl
Characters of the Reformation: historical portraits of 23 men and women and their place in the great religious revolution of the 16th century
by
Hilaire Belloc
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (P.S.)
by
Veronica Buckley
Correspondance avec Elisabeth et autres lettres
by
René Descartes
The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
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Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Cosmos: The World and the Glory of God
by
Louis Bouyer
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations"
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Harry G. Frankfurt
Descartes
by
John G. Cottingham
Descartes (Arguments of the Philosophers)
by
Margaret Dauler Wilson
Descartes i Uppsala : striderna om "nya filosofien" 1663-1689 = The contentions about Cartesianism in Upsala 1663-1689
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Rolf Lindborg
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
by
Russell Shorto
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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Antonio Damasio
Descartes's Method of Doubt
by
Janet Broughton
Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
by
Amir D. Aczel
Descartes's Theory of Mind
by
Desmond Clarke
Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics
by
Roger Woolhouse
Descartes. In Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten.
by
Rainer Specht
Descartes: A Collection of Critical Essays
by
Willis Doney
Descartes: A Study of His Philosophy
by
Anthony Kenny
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction
by
Tom Sorell
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
by
Stephen Gaukroger
Descartes: His Life and Thought
by
Genevieve Rodis-Lewis
Descartes: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) (Great Philosophers (Routledge (Firm)))
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John Cottingham
Descartes: The Life and times of a Genius
by
A. C. Grayling
Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry
by
Bernard Williams
Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by
René Descartes
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That End
by
Stephan Talty
Essays on Descartes' Meditations
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Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
The Essential Descartes
by
Paul Strathern
The Examined Life: Readings from Western Philosophers from Plato to Kant
by
Stanley Rosen
A Fly on the Ceiling (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)
by
Julie Glass
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
by
Matthew L. Jones
History of Philosophy, Volume 4 (Modern Philosophy)
by
Frederick C. Copleston
I, Robot
by
Isaac Asimov
Ideas and Mechanism
by
Margaret Dauler Wilson
Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism
by
Tzvetan Todorov
Introducing Descartes
by
Dave Robinson
Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Vol. 1
by
Jonathan Bennett
Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Volume 2
by
Jonathan Bennett
Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy
by
Robert E Bradley (ed)
Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought (SPEP)
by
James Barry
Men of mathematics
by
E.T. Bell
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
by
Jean-François Revel
New Science
by
Giambattista Vico
Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche
by
Laurence Lampert
Nihilism Before Nietzsche
by
Michael Allen Gillespie
Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians
by
Jane Muir
Philosophical Essays and Correspondence (Descartes) (Hackett Publishing Co.)
by
René Descartes
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1
by
René Descartes
The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to Rene Descartes
by
Andrea Nye
Principles of Descartes Philosophy
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Benedictus de Spinoza
Problems of mind; Descartes to Wittgenstein
by
Norman Malcolm
René Descartes
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Rolf Lindborg
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations (Routledge Philosophyguidebooks)
by
Gary Hatfield
Seventeenth-century rationalism: Bacon & Descartes
by
Norman F. Cantor
Sophie's World
by
Jostein Gaarder
The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
by
Mario Beauregard
Tables of knowledge : Descartes in Vermeer's studio
by
Harriet Amy Stone
Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau
by
Jacques Maritain
Tietoteoria
by
Markus Lammenranta
Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
by
Jacob Bronowski
What Life Is and What Life Is For
by
Zeera P. Charnoe
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by
Michael Shermer
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2
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Meditations on First Philosophy
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Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy
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René Descartes
Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings
by
René Descartes
Radical Enlightenment
by
Jonathan I. Israel
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
by
Stephen Edelston Toulmin
Journey Through Genius
by
William Dunham
The Solitaire Mystery
by
Jostein Gaarder
The Caves of Steel
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Isaac Asimov
The philosophical writings of Descartes
by
René Descartes
History of Political Philosophy
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Leo Strauss
Spinoza
by
Stuart Hampshire
Philosophy for Beginners
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Richard Osborne
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
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Matthew Stewart
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
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Richard Rorty
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Amir D. Aczel
Isaac Asimov
John Aubrey
James Barry
Mario Beauregard
E.T. Bell
Hilaire Belloc
Jonathan Bennett
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Louis Bouyer
Jacob Bronowski
Richard Brookhiser
Janet Broughton
Veronica Buckley
Norman F. Cantor
Zeera P. Charnoe
John Cottingham
René Descartes
Willis Doney
Harry G. Frankfurt
Jostein Gaarder
Stephen Gaukroger
Michael Allen Gillespie
Julie Glass
A. C. Grayling
Stuart Hampshire
Gary Hatfield
Edmund Husserl
Matthew L. Jones
Anthony Kenny
Markus Lammenranta
Laurence Lampert
Fred Van Lente
Rolf Lindborg
Norman Malcolm
Jacques Maritain
Jane Muir
Andrea Nye
Jean-François Revel
Robert E Bradley (ed)
Dave Robinson
Stanley Rosen
Michael Shermer
Russell Shorto
Tom Sorell
Rainer Specht
Benedictus de Spinoza
Harriet Amy Stone
Paul Strathern
Stephan Talty
Tzvetan Todorov
Giambattista Vico
Benjamin Wiker
Bernard Williams
Margaret Dauler Wilson
Desmond M. Clarke
Frederick Copleston
Antonio R. Damasio
Geneviève Rodis-Lewis
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Roger Woolhouse
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René Descartes ( 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer.
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