Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto Russell Shorto has taken a unique approach to the conflict between science and religion; he has traced it to its origin in the philosophy of Rene Descartes, and using Descartes’ corpse followed the repercussions of the dead man’s ideas on Western civilization. The book is a history of the evolution of philosophy and the emergence of the idea that reason and religious faith were separate... read more
