For 10 points, identify this author of Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, who is connected with the phrase "I think, therefore I am."
After hearing of the Catholic Church's condemnation of Galileo, this thinker abandoned his task of compiling his Treatise on Light and his Treatise on Man into an erudite volume called The World. He frequently corresponded with Elisabeth of Bohemia, to whom he dedicated a work which claims the intellect springs from the pineal gland. In another work by this author of Passions of the Soul, he casts doubt on his own knowledge by supposing that an evil genius was wrongly providing him with sensory experience. For 10 points, identify this author of Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, who is connected with the phrase "I think, therefore I am."
After hearing of the Catholic Church's condemnation of Galileo, this thinker abandoned his task of compiling his Treatise on Light and his Treatise on Man into an erudite volume called The World.
Rene Descartes