* Andrew Gluck ( 2007 ) Damasio's Error and Descartes ' Truth: An Inquiry into Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Consciousness, University of Scranton Press, Scranton PA, ISBN 978-1-58966-127-1 (( pb )).

* Gottfried Leibniz-Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae (" A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature ")

Damasio developed the concept in his ( 1999 ) book, The Feeling of What Happens, out of his earlier formulation in Descartes ' Error ( 1994 ) of the importance of what he called ' background feeling ... the feeling of life itself, the sense of being ' - something without which, he considered, ' the very core of your representation of self would be broken '.

His 1994 book, Descartes ' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, won the Science et Vie prize, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and is translated in over 30 languages.

* Descartes ' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam, 1994 ; revised Penguin edition, 2005

Descartes ' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neurologist António Damásio.

In Descartes ' Error, Damasio also explored the way ' the neural basis of the self ' as I see it, resides with the continuous activation of at least two sets of representations.

Partly in consequence, there is ' at present introduced by literature such as Damasio's Descartes ' Error ... a trend to include ( or rather rehabilitate ) the body and its movement into the research of the social and behavioral sciences '.

Richard Webster writes that the appearance of Descartes ' Error is encouraging for those who see the traditional dichotomy between reason and feeling as artificial and damaging, noting that it contests the division on the basis of both clinical experience and the findings of modern neuroscience.

* Descartes ' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam Publishing, 1994, hardcover: ISBN 0-399-13894-3

Descartes ’ error: Emotion, reason and the human brain.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

In stark opposition to the rationalists who preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that desire rather than reason governed human behavior, saying: " Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes ' idealism.

* Antonio Negri, Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project.

A more interesting defense of Descartes against the charge of circularity is developed by Harry Frankfurt in his book Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: the Defense of Reason in Descartes ' Meditations ( Bobbs – Merrill, 1970 ; reprinted by Princeton University Press, 2007 ).

Descartes in his Passions of the Soul and The Description of the Human Body suggested that the body works like a machine, that it has material properties.

( Descartes, Meditation II: On the Nature of the Human Mind, Which Is Better Known Than the Body ).

( Descartes, Meditation II: On the Nature of the Human Mind, Which Is Better Known Than the Body ).

The Description of the Human Body ( La description du corps humain ) is an unfinished treatise written in 1647 by René Descartes.

* René Descartes: The Description of the Human Body: summary preface in translation.

Fascist ' ( Because I Care About Both Human and Non-Human Animals )", " Nailing Descartes to the Wall /( Liquid ) Meat Is Still Murder ", and "... And We Thought Nation-States Were a Bad Idea ".

Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of Human, All Too Human “ to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death, May 30, 1778 .” Instead of a preface, the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes ’ Discourse on the Method.

Plantinga argues that together, naturalism and evolution provide an insurmountable " defeater for the belief that our cognitive faculties are reliable ", i. e., a skeptical argument along the lines of Descartes ' Evil demon or Brain in a vat.

Brain implants are now part of modern culture but there were early philosophical references of relevance as far back as René Descartes.

The modes of the imagination implicit in Athenian tragedy continued to shape the life of the mind until the age of Descartes and Newton.

They are Descartes, Newton, and Voltaire.

As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.

Both books were translated and released by French publisher Jeux Descartes in 1994 and 1995.

Ampère claimed that " at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his First Communion, the reading of Antoine Leonard Thomas's " Eulogy of Descartes ", and the Taking of the Bastille.

The decision to target the Apollo 16 lunar landing for the highlands region of the Moon was made to obtain samples of the Descartes Formation and the Cayley Formation.

Two locations on the Moon were given primary consideration for exploration by the Apollo 16 expedition, the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus.

At Descartes, the Cayley and Descartes formations were the primary areas of interest in that scientists suspected, based on telescopic and orbital imagery, that the terrain found there was formed by magma more viscous than that which formed the lunar maria.

The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.

It was ultimately decided to target the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes site.

With the assistance of orbital photography obtained on the Apollo 14 mission, the Descartes site was determined to be safe enough for a manned landing.

After selecting the landing site for Apollo 16, sampling the Descartes and Cayley formations, two geologic units of the lunar highlands, were determined by mission planners to be the primary sampling interests of the mission.

Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: " There you are: Mysterious and Unknown Descartes.

At that point, scientists began to reconsider their pre-mission hypothesis that Descartes had been the setting of ancient volcanic activity, as the two astronauts had yet to find any volcanic material.

There, they hoped to find Descartes material that had not been contaminated by ejecta from South Ray Crater, a large crater south of the landing site.

The samples they collected there, although their origin is still not certain, are, according to geologist Don Wilhelms, " a reasonable bet to be Descartes.

* ON THE MOON WITH APOLLO 16 A guidebook to the Descartes Region by Gene Simmons, NASA, 1972.

Apollonius in the Conics further developed a method that is so similar to analytic geometry that his work is sometimes thought to have anticipated the work of Descartes — by some 1800 years.

The eleventh century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra, and was moving in the right direction when he helped to close the gap between numerical and geometric algebra with his geometric solution of the general cubic equations, but the decisive step came later with Descartes.

Although not published in his lifetime, a manuscript form of Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge ( Introduction to Plane and Solid Loci ) was circulating in Paris in 1637, just prior to the publication of Descartes ' Discourse.

The key difference between Fermat's and Descartes ' treatments is a matter of viewpoint.

Fermat always started with an algebraic equation and then described the geometric curve which satisfied it, while Descartes starts with geometric curves and produces their equations as one of several properties of the curves.