Descartes’ Cogito Argument

“I think, therefore I am” – almost everyone has heard of René Descartes’ famous cogito argument. But what is this argument about? What does it show, and why are so many philosophers excited about it – even today, more than 350 years after Descartes first presented this argument?

Professor for the History of Philosophy at University of Hamburg

From 2003 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Basel . From 2004 to 2006 he was a student assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2009 he became a research assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the fall of 2012, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Toronto . In spring 2013 he was a visiting scientist at Yale University . In June 2015, he was rejected as an Assistant Professor for Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Since spring 2016 he has been a professor for the history of philosophy at the University of Hamburg .

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