Matter matters: metaphysics and methodology in the early modern period

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 thatmathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists. INDICE: Introduction; Part I: Preliminaries: The Context of Modern Matter; 1: The Visible and the Intelligible; 2: Plato's Early and Late Methods; 3:Matter and Division; Part II: Analysis; 4: Analysis and Clarity and Distinctness; 5: A General Theory of Clarity and Distinctness; 6: The General Theory Continued; 7: Enumeration, Quantity, and Measurement; Part III: Synthesis; 8: Synthesis and System Building; 9: Synthesis and the Principle of Addition; 10: Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Metaphor; 11: Material Structure and Calculating Machines; 12: How Analysis and Synthesis are Related; Part IV: Sensible and Intelligible Matter; 13: Is Matter Real?; 14: Empirical Ideality, Reality, and Matter; 15: Empirical Reality and Intelligible Matter; 16: Transcendental Matter; Tying Up the Loose Ends-Closing Remarks; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958365-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés