Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period

by Kurt Smith

Book Overview

Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. The "mathematization" of the physics is shown to have been conceptually underwritten by two methods of philosophizing, namely, analysis and synthesis. The connection between these things--mathematics, matter, and the methods of analysis and synthesis--has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958365X
• ISBN13: 9780199583652
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.8"