René Descartes (1596-1650) : His Scientific Work and its Reception

Delphine Antoine-Mahut (1)

1 IHRIM - Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités

René Descartes (1596-1650) is often presented as the founder of the "dualistic" thesis radically separating the soul from the body, in early modern philosophy. As such, he is likely to have initiated two kinds of revolutions: a revolution in the study of nature and living being(understood as inanimate), on the one hand; and a revolution in the study of the human mind(understood as the foundation of all knowledge), on the other. This entry focuses on his scientific work and overall reception, as a way of understanding the interaction of these two fields.

Mots clés: Historiography; René Descartes; Cartesianism; Descartes; Early Modern Philosophy

Domaines: Philosophie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Delphine Antoine-Mahut. René Descartes (1596-1650) : His Scientific Work and its Reception. Dana Jalobeanu, Charles T. Wolfe. Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer, 2022, 978-3-319-20791-9. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_608-1⟩. ⟨hal-03548332⟩