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Descartes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions Book 30) (Updated Edition) by Professor Tom Sorell, Tom Sorrell, Professor Of Philosophy, University Of Essex) Kindle, 129 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-19-285409-7 / 0192854097 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-285409-4 / 9780192854094 René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived fro |