Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's…

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence…

— Allan Bloom

Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian…

— Allen W. Wood

Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior…

— Nomy Arpaly

So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as…

— Hilary Kornblith

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of…

— Ernest Sosa

The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that is so…

— Ernest Sosa

Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical…

— Ernest Sosa

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality…

— Edgar Mitchell

“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a means…

— René Descartes

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become…

— Voltaire

It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and…

— Allen W. Wood

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into…

— Sophus Lie