Matter matters: metaphysics and methodology in the early modern period
Auteur :
Smith, Kurt
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199664702
Date de publication :
13 déc. 2012
Dimensions :
23,5 x 18,0 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
540 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.