In the Louvre hangs a portrait of a dark-haired, middle-aged man wearing a black coat. The label identifies the figure as the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes. It’s a “copy of a Hals” ...
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.
A year before he died, René Descartes sat down for a portrait. Scott McLemee discusses a new book on the back story. At the start of a course of lectures on Aristotle in the 1920s, Martin Heidegger ...