His famous line, "I think, therefore I am," is one of the few philosophical lines that has actually escaped the classroom.

A letter by René Descartes that was stolen over 150 years ago has been discovered in a small American college by a Dutch scholar. Dr Erik-Jan Bos stumbled upon a mention of the letter of 27 May 1641 – ...

Thinking man: Rene Descartes may have got some scientific details wrong, but he revolutionized the approach to thinking scientifically. (Courtesy: Science Photo Library) In the Wallace Collection in ...

Rene Descartes (1596–1650) is the author of perhaps the most famous philosophical quote of all, cogito ergo sum, usually rendered as I think, therefore I am. There is however more to this quote, and ...

A single mistake can sometimes change how we see the truth forever. When something we trusted turns out to be false, it forces us to question not just that one belief, but the way we judge everything ...

The artful protagonists of The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam are witty enchantments, products of active imaginations whose disappearance requires further imaginative action.