Kurt Smith

Datos Biográficos

ID5723213
NOMBREKurt Smith
NOMBRESKurt
APELLIDOSmith
FIRMASMITH K
AFILIACIONESBloomsburg University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
ÍNDICE H0

  • Matter Matters

    Kurt SmithBOOKMatter matters2010

    Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? This book explores a seventeenth‐century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. What we learn is the sense in which these philosophers held that an analysis of the material world must inevitably lead to mathematics, and that mathematics must inevitably take matter as its object. Here the connection between matter and mathematics was cast…

  • Rationalism and Representation

    Kurt SmithCHAPTERCompanion to Rationalism2007

    This chapter contains sections titled: The Falsity Inherent in Sensory Ideas Descartes, Arnauld, and the Notion of Material Falsity Some Leading Interpretations A New Interpretation Conclusion

  • The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution

    Open AccessKurt SmithARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2007

    Matthew L. Jones. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 384 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-226-40954-6. - Volume 60 Issue 2

  • Cartesian Views

    Open AccessKurt SmithARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2004

    Thomas M. Lennon, ed. Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 116. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xii + 240 pp. index, bibl. $99. ISBN: 90-04-13299-6. - Volume 57 Issue 4

  • Descartes's Dualism

    Open AccessKurt SmithARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2003

    Marleen Rozemond. Descartes's Dualism. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xx + 279 pp. index. bibl. 19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-674-19840-9 (cl), 0-674-00968-1 (pbk). - Volume 56 Issue 4

  • A General Theory of Cartesian Clarity and Distinctness Based on the Theory of Enumeration in the Rules

    Open AccessKurt SmithARTICLEDialogue2001Referencias: 6

    Le «clair» et le «distinct» comptent parmi les concepts les plus importants de la théorie cartésienne de la connaissance. Il n'est pas étonnant dès lors qu'il se soit trouvé quelques divergences quant à la façon dont ces concepts doivent être compris. Mais jusqu'à tout récemment, les chercheurs ne se sont guère attardés sur ces divergences, alors pourtant que certaines d'entre elles sont fort remarquables. Ainsi certaines interprétations de la th…