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Author:   Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780199664702

ISBN 10:   0199664706
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   13 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Kurt Smith's Matter Matters is a brilliantly suggestive study of early modern philosophy ... The book's virtues are many. It contains important contributions to the literature on Descartes. There is also a refreshing confidence on display, as Smith draws connections between very different thinkers across large spans of time and a range of topics this is a book that deserves attention Joseph Zepeda, History of Science Society

`Review from previous edition refreshingly innovative ... the journey on which Smith leads his reader is well worth the time and investment and will likely aid in drawing the attention of many early modern scholars to these important and fertile issues ' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews `... a work of genius ... exhibits a breathtaking spread of erudition from antiquity to the present, mobilized to elucidate the early modern significance of the concept of matter. ' Thomas M. Lennon, The University of Western Ontario

`Review from previous edition refreshingly innovative ... the journey on which Smith leads his reader is well worth the time and investment and will likely aid in drawing the attention of many early modern scholars to these important and fertile issues ' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews `... a work of genius ... exhibits a breathtaking spread of erudition from antiquity to the present, mobilized to elucidate the early modern significance of the concept of matter. ' Thomas M. Lennon, The University of Western Ontario

Author Information

Kurt Smith earned his BA in philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and his MA and PhD in philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He is currently Professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His work can be found in such publications as the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and in the Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy series.

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