René Descartes

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French person early modern philosopher human mathematician philosopher scientist

René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."

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dateOfBirth	1596-03-31 →
dateOfDeath	1650-02-11 →
educatedAt	University of Poitiers →
education	Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand at La Flèche →
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familyName	Descartes →
fieldOfWork	analytic geometry → epistemology → mathematics → mechanics → metaphysics → optics → philosophy → physics →
fullName	René Descartes →
givenName	René →
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influenced	Baruch Spinoza → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Immanuel Kant → John Locke → modern Western philosophy →
influencedBy	Aristotle → Augustine of Hippo → Francis Bacon →
knownFor	Cartesian coordinate system → Cartesian dualism → cogito ergo sum → foundationalism in epistemology → mechanistic view of the physical world → methodic doubt → mind–body dualism →
languageOfWorkOrName	French → Latin →
movement	Cartesianism → rationalism →
nickName	father of modern philosophy →
notableWork	Discourse on the Method → Geometry → Meditations on First Philosophy → Principles of Philosophy → Rules for the Direction of the Mind →
occupation	author → mathematician → philosopher → scientist →
philosophicalSchool	rationalism →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of France → La Haye en Touraine →
placeOfDeath	Stockholm → Sweden →
religion	Catholicism →
residence	Netherlands → Sweden →
sexOrGender	male →

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding → Auguste Comte → Baruch Spinoza → Blaise Pascal → Cartesian Linguistics → Christiaan Huygens → Discourse on Metaphysics → Frans van Schooten → French Enlightenment → Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Isaac Newton → Jakob Bernoulli → Johann Christoph Gottsched → John Locke → Monadology → Nicolas Malebranche → Port-Royal Logic → Principles of Cartesian Philosophy → Robert Boyle → Skepticism → Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect →	influencedBy
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