Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes was the father of the modern philosophy, was one of the first epistemologist and phenomenologist. Descartes practice the racionalism and was against empiricism, he thought that the world is mechanically perfect and the humans are mechanicals and funcionals, the mechanical part is the matter and the functional part is the substance.
Matter: is the body of the human, which is considered as a machine
Substance: The substance is the soul, which allows us to knowledge. The soul have superstition about something, allows us to know thing, and place ourselves in some time.
Also Rene Descartes say: i think, therefore, i exist. and also Rene says that we can not trust in our senses because they can be false, for example: if your these drugged you can see a lot of strange things, or ¿how can you know that your not in a dream? or ¿how can you know that this really exist?.
also Rene create the Cartesian method.