Rene Descartes Audio Books

This Penguin Classic is performed by Rory Alexander. Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy.

The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am."

René Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his Meditations on First Philosophy can be found in the medieval period that had already existed for more than a thousand years.

By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....

The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--the Laws of Physics--as Descartes viewed them.

A landmark in the history of thought, Rene Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world....

Plagued with doubt and uncertainty in sensory knowledge, Descartes is struck with the idea that everything he knows is false.