Examining the Relationship between Knowledge and Metaphysics in Rene Descartes and the Development of Modern Science

The task of this essay is to make a critical study of Descartes philosophy on the relationship between his epistemology and metaphysics, and how both contributed to the scientific civilization of the modern era. For the purpose of this exercise, we have divided this essay into two parts. The first part will expose the tenets of Descartes’ epistemology and metaphysics, and their relationship in him, while the second part will investigate its development in modern science.

Keywords: Descartes, epistemology, metaphysics, science, method.