Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period
Matter Matters is a work of genius. The work exhibits a breathtaking spread of erudition from antiquity to the present, mobilized to elucidate the early modern significance of the concept of matter. The slight play of words in the title expresses the principal thesis of the work, that mathematics is intelligible for Descartes if and only if matter exists as its object. Smith understands, better than anyone, how Descartes could claim, literally, that my physics is nothing but geometry. Many will be convinced, some dismayed, and all will be dazzled by this book.'---Thomas M. Lennon, The University of Western Ontario.
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-958365-2
- EAN: 9780199583652
- Produktnummer: 22676462
- Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr (Uk)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H24.9 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.0 cm 816 g
- Gewicht: 816
Über den Autor
Kurt Smith earned his BA in philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and his MA and PhD in philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He is currently Professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His work can be found in such publications as the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and in the Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy series.
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