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René Descartes

Portrait after Frans Hals

Born31 March 1596 (1596-03-31)

La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, Kingdom of France (now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire)

Died11 February 1650 (1650-02-12) (aged 53)

Stockholm, Swedish Empire

Education
  • Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand (1607–1614)
  • University of Poitiers (LL.B., 1616)
  • University of Franeker (no degree)
  • Leiden University (no degree)
Era
Region
School
  • Rationalism
  • Cartesianism
  • Mechanism
  • Innatism
  • Foundationalism
  • Conceptualism
  • Augustinianism
  • Indirect realism
  • Correspondence theory of truth
  • Corpuscularianism
  • Theological voluntarism
ThesisUntitled LL.B. thesis(1616)

Main interests

Epistemology, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, cosmology, ethics

Notable ideas

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