TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Kurt
TI  - Matter matters: metaphysics and methodology in the early modern period 
SN  - 9780191723155 (ebook) :
AV  - BD111 
U1  - 110 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Descartes, Ren�e,
KW  - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
KW  - Matter
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? 'Matter Matters' explores a 17th-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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583652.001.0001
ER  -