[DOC] [TLE] Ren Descartes > By Individual Philosopher > Philosophy [PAR] Ren Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, 
scientist ... and his mother, Jeanne (ne Brochard), died of tuberculosis when 
Ren was just .... Paradoxically, this was an essential step forward in 17th 
Century science as it ... that the mind and the body were two very different and 
separate things. [DOC] [TLE] Mindbody problem - Wikipedia [PAR] The mindbody problem is the problem of explaining how mental states, events 
and ... Dualism maintains a rigid distinction between the realms of mind and 
matter. ... philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate 
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over the... [DOC] [TLE] Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia [PAR] Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and 
mathematician ... The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, 
which ..... Nevertheless, following the death of Copernicus and before Galileo, .... 
step towards the eventual separation of science from both philosophy and 
religion;... [DOC] [TLE] Beginning of Modern Science & Modern Philosophy [PAR] So Copernicus did not let his book be published until he lay dying. ... Galileo thus 
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Descartes (1596-1650) and the Meditations on First Philosophy ..... A split brain 
patient [the hemispheres of whose brain have been surgically separated] cannot 
say the... [DOC] [TLE] Ren Descartes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [PAR] Dec 3, 2008 ... Ren Descartes (15961650) was a creative mathematician of the first ... to show 
that the essence of matter is extension, and that the essence of mind is thought. ... 
In the years following his death, his natural philosophy was widely .... student of 
elementary geometry: break your work up into small steps that... [DOC] [TLE] Descartes, Rene | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [PAR] The presentation below provides an overview of Descartes' philosophical thought 
as it relates ... Cogito, ergo sum; The Nature of the Mind and its Ideas .... was ill-
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substantial form of swallowness unites with matter so as to organize it for the 
sake... [DOC] [TLE] 5. Philosophy and Basic Beliefs - University of Minnesota [PAR] In fact, there is one more step to take: one simply can call all thoughts and all 
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youth of his .... Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, suggested that all philosophy starts, 
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Ren Descartes died, aged 53, of pneumonia in Stockholm on February, 11 1650
. [DOC] [TLE] A Beginner's Guide to Descartes's Meditations - Sakai [PAR] For those interested in Descartes's philosophy in general, the Meditations 
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and my .... death, from pneumonia, on 11 February 1650, shortly before his fifty-
fourth ..... existence of two separate substances (mind and matter)  he is a 'mind
body. [DOC] [TLE] History of Philosophy - 5. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz [PAR] Jun 27, 2006 ... It appears as something mystical, separate and apart from matter, a divine ... 
immortal soul, independent of our body, which will not perish when we die. ... "
The mind is to it in itself void, a mere mirror of the external world, a mere ... to 
being was posed by the French philosopher Descartes (1596-1650) in a... [DOC] [TLE] Greek Philosophy: Its Relevance Today -

Question: Separating mind from matter was a big step for this philosopher who died in 1650
Answer: Rene Descartes