This man's cosmology is put forth in Le Monde, while in his last book, The Passions of the Soul, he posits the pineal gland as "the seat of the soul" in an attempt to address some of the problems with his mind-body dualism. In his most famous work, he puts forth the dream argument and his namesake demon to make his assumed hyperbolic skepticism more plausible, but he goes on to destroy this skepticism with the help of his "clear and distinct" perceptions criteria. For ten points, identify this author of the Meditations on First Philosophy, a 17th century Frenchman who said "I think, therefore I am."
This man's cosmology is put forth in Le Monde, while in his last book, The Passions of the Soul, he posits the pineal gland as "the seat of the soul" in an attempt to address some of the problems with his mind-body dualism. In his most famous work, he puts forth the dream argument and his namesake demon to make his assumed hyperbolic skepticism more plausible, but he goes on to destroy this skepticism with the help of his "clear and distinct" perceptions criteria. For ten points, identify this author of the Meditations on First Philosophy, a 17th century Frenchman who said "I think, therefore I am."
This man's cosmology is put forth in Le Monde, while in his last book, The Passions of the Soul, he posits the pineal gland as "the seat of the soul" in an attempt to address some of the problems with his mind-body dualism.
Rene {Descartes}