René Descartes

Literature

Biographies

• Jack Rochford Vrooman, René Descartes: A Biography, New York: Putnam Press, 1970.
• Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Richard A. Watson, Cogito, Ergo Sum: A Life of René Descartes, David R Godine, 2002; 2007.
• Desmond Clarke, Descartes: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Steven Nadler, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press, 2013.

Encyclopedic entries

• Kurt Smith, "Descartes' Life and Works", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Edward Slowik, "Descartes' Physics", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Mary Domski, "Descartes' Mathematics", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Kurt Smith, "Descartes' Theory of Ideas", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Amy M. Schmitter, "Descartes on the Emotions", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Lex Newman, Descartes' Epistemology", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• David Cunning, Descartes' Modal Metaphysics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Lawrence Nolan, "Descartes' Ontological Argument", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Gert-Jan Lokhorst, "Descartes and the Pineal Gland", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.