In Simply Descartes, Professor Kurt Smith offers the general reader an opportunity to get better acquainted with the philosophy of the man who, as much as any individual, helped shape our contemporary way of thinking. Written in simple, nonacademic language and based on the best recent scholarship, Simply Descartes is the ideal introduction to Descartes' life and workfrom the famous Cogito ("I think, therefore I am") to the development of analytic geometry, to the nature of God.
Not to mention which, if you've ever wondered whether all living things are nothing more than fancy machines, or whether life is really a Matrix-like dream, you'll be amazed to discover that a 17th-century philosopher was asking (and answering) the same things!