O artigo tem por objetivo examinar se haveria uma política na filosofia de Descartes. Partindo do fato que, aparentemente, nenhuma abriga nessa filosofia, são discutidas cada dessas três leituras: (1) o cartesianismo permaneceu à espera que lhe conviesse; (2) é incompatível com toda política; (3) política, mas ela menos visível os seus outros assuntos. autor argumenta em favor da leitura Descar...

The seeds of the formalization of thought were sown by the French philosopher René Descartes in the 17th century [2]. Descartes argued that thinking is reasoning, and that reason is a chain of simple ideas, linked by applying strict rules of logic. With his ‘cogito ergo sum’, Descartes was the first precursor of cognitive science (even if he was wrong about the dualism of mind and brain). Then,...

richard mckay rorty (1932-2007) is the american neo-pragmatist. criticizing the prevalent issues of traditional philosophy such as truth, knowledge, objectivity, logic and philosophy, he considers epistemology a modern subject which emerged via forging the mind by rene descartes. in his view, separation of mind–body is an unprecedented matter created in descartes philosophy. he thinks that, i...

The question of how to construct polynomials having as many roots as allowed by the Descartes rule of signs has been the focus of interest recently 1],,2]. For a given real polynomial p(x) = a 0 + a 1 x + + a n x n ; Descartes's rule of signs says that the number of positive roots of p(x) is equal to the number of sign changes in the sequence a 0 ; a 1 ; : : : ; a n , or is less than this numbe...

The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a normative problem on which people differ in opinion, and hence we should seek a way of dealing with the issue that takes into account this plurality. In the paper, we suggest an approach to poverty measurement which avoids incorporating any particular normative position on how to weigh the interes...

The problem of human's two domains has a significant influence on human knowledge, and since the human privilege in the universe to the other beings as well as the immateriality of the soul and so on is based on proving the soul's substance separately, it worths to search in this issue about the ideas of two Western and Islamic philosophers. Ibn Sīnā with arguments such as the "suspending man" ...

Jaqueline Wendland, Psychopathology and Health Processes Laboratory, Paris Descartes University; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Piti e-Salpêtri ere Hospital Julie Brisson and Melania Medeiros, Psychopathology and Health Processes Laboratory, Paris Descartes University Laurence Camon-S en echal, Elisabeth Aidane, and Mich ele David, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ...