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Richard Francks

Richard Francks retired last year as Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He has published translations of Leibniz (with Roger Woolhouse), his own Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2003), and has just finished the manuscript of a Reader’s Guide to Descartes’ Meditations (Continuum, 2008).

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Mind over body
15 November 2007

In the last of his series on Descartes Richard Francks ponders the nature of objectivity

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Descartes and God
14 November 2007

Richard Francks considers the relationship between belief and rationality

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Cartesian atomic individuals
13 November 2007

Descartes' denial of the senses and notion of the individual self are explored by Richard Francks

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Descartes - more than 'I think therefore I am'
12 November 2007

Richard Franks explains how Cartesian ideas influence the way we think and behave today

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