Matter matters: metaphysics and methodology in the early modern period
Auteur :
Smith, Kurt
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199583652
Date de publication :
29 avr. 2010
Dimensions :
24,1 x 16,3 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
690 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists.