Rene Descartes helped form the early ideas of psychology, before psychology was an established field. His most important contribution to modern psychology is probably the idea of the mind and body being separate entities, which has major implications for why and how we experience emotions.
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DESCARTES Rule in math class. (geometry and up!)
Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who created coordinated geometry.
Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.
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Rene Descartes has been a role model for critical and creative thinking because of his revolutionary way of thinking. His desire for rationality and logic was major change of pace in his time and for generations following.