FTP, name this French author of the Meditations on  First Philosophy and Discourse on Method, who famously stated Cogito ergo sum, or I think, therefore I am.
Born in Le Haye en Touraine, France, in 1596, he was interested in neuroscience, and thought that the pineal gland was the seat of the human soul. In philosophy, he broke dramatically with scholasticism, though he carried a copy of  Francisco Suarez' Disputations with him wherever he went. Instead, he founded a philosophical tradition that was  continued by such figures as Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and finally Immanuel Kant. This tradition focused primarily on  epistemology and the relationship between body and soul. On the latter subject, he was a dualist, believing that the body and soul are wholly separate, while on the former subject, he claimed that sensory data could not be trusted, since one  could always be either dreaming or confounded by an evil demon. FTP, name this French author of the Meditations on  First Philosophy and Discourse on Method, who famously stated Cogito ergo sum, or I think, therefore I am.
Born in Le Haye en Touraine, France, in 1596, he was interested in neuroscience, and thought that the pineal gland was the seat of the human soul.
Rene Descartes