Umfang:
X, 299 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
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24 cm
ISBN:
019958365X
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9780199583652
Inhalt:
"M̀atter 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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index
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Preliminaries : the context of modern matter. The visible and the intelligible ; Plato's early and late methods ; Matter and division -- Analysis. Analysis and clarity and distinctness ; A general theory of clarity and distinctness ; The general theory continued ; Enumeration, quantity, and measurement -- Synthesis. Synthesis and system building ; Synthesis and the principle of addition ; Metaphysics, mathematics, and metaphor ; Material structure and calculating machines ; How analysis and synthesis are related -- Sensible and intelligible matter. Is matter real? ; Empirical ideality, reality, and matter ; Empirical reality and intelligible matter ; Transcendental matter -- Tying up the loose ends : closing remarks.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Smith, Kurt, 1961 - Matter matters Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780191723155
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0191723150
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Metaphysik
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Ontologie
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Geschichte 1596-1716
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Descartes, René 1596-1650
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
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Metaphysik
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