Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the next 400 years—as a thinking mind, first and foremost. The experiment used a ...

we are shown that if it is formally true to look upon it as the introduction to Descartes' philosophy, this short work is materially a retrospect, a summing-up of a life's achievement, rather than ...

Held every other year, the Henle Conference was founded in 1993 by Eleonore Stump, the Robert J. Henle Chair of Philosophy. The Henle Conference brings internationally renowned scholars to SLU to ...

Descartes’ theorem ... patterns formed by larger configurations of tangent circles. In circle packing theory, flowers serve as a fundamental building block. It is well established that once ...