Ajarring surprise greets the reader of 20th century psychosomatic literature who comes to it after having been immersed in 17th and 18th century materials. The mind-body dualism credited to Descartes is referred to with uncommon frequency and is usually said to have exercised an overwhelmingly negative influence on modem medicine. Roy R. Grinker, for example, bitterly blames Cartesian dualism f...

in the wisdom-faith relation debate, as one of the most important issues in theology, thomas aquinas, the renowned christian rhetoric of the middle ages, intellectually claims that wisdom is independent and even superior to faith. in the modern cartesian intellectualism, there is nothing superior to the wisdom, put differently; things which can’t be recognized through logic can’t be considered ...

spinoza’s theory of mind posits identity of mind and body in opposition to the cartesian dualistic tradition. these dualistic and monistic views of the mind and body have caused many reactions in the contemporary philosophy. feminists have objected to the dualisms which were resulted from cartesian tradition and criticized them. in doing so, they have found spinoza’s philosophy as a resolution ...

Descartes published his Meditations in First Philosophy in 1641. A French translation from the original Latin, which he saw and approved followed six years later. The words ‘in First Philosophy’ indicate that the Meditations attack fundamental questions, the chief of them being the nature of knowledge and the nature of man. I shall deal almost entirely with his treatment of the first, the natur...

Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between four mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. We observe that there exist Apollonian packings which have strong integrality properties, in which all circles in the packing have integer curvatures and rational centers such that (curvature)×(center) is an integer vector. This series of papers explain such...

⋆ University Paris Descartes, MAP5, UMR CNRS 8145. ⋆⋆ Institute of Mathematics, Humboldt University Berlin.

Descartes’ın rüya şüpheciliği, uyku ve uyanıklık halinin nasıl ayırt edileceği üzerine gelişmiştir. Descartes, ‘Şu an rüyada olmadığımı nereden bilebilirim?’ sorusu ile rüyayı, epistemik şüphesinin merkezine oturtmaktadır. Descartes sonrası Kartezyen şüpheciliğini de belirleyen bu problem, şüpheden ontolojik şüpheye evrilmiş konusu hem epistemolojinin ontolojinin haline gelmiştir. Bu aşamada od...