How Descartes Divided Mental From Physical

How can you know with absolute certainty that you exist? Rene Descartes famously answered: "I think; therefore I am." He... (more)

How can you know with absolute certainty that you exist? Rene Descartes famously answered: "I think; therefore I am." He also suggested a complete split between the mind and the physical body. The vast and sharply divided responses to Descartes' dualism still influence the ways in which we address the mind-body problem today. (less)