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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1383-7427
- eISSN
- 1573-3823
- DOI
- 10.1163/157338207X231495
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 12 (2007) 433-465 453 Matthew L. Jones, e Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 384+xvi, ills., $65.00 ISBN 978 0 226 40954 2 (cloth); $27.50 ISBN 978 0 226 40955 9 (paper). Late twentieth-century Anglophone philosophy of science investigated the nature of scientific rationality by taking logic as its touchstone; while we philosophers also grad- ually learned to make use of the history of science, that employment rarely touched on political and ethical issues, or the rationality of practical deliberation. e same could be said for the philosophy of mathematics. In his well-researched and insightful new book e Good Life in the Scientific Revolution , Matthew Jones reminds us that three of the seventeenth-century philosophical mathematicians central to the scientific revolution “deemed knowledge and practices considered scientific to be powerful tools for living a good and virtuous life.” (p. 1) e book thus tracks one major tradition of integrating mathematics with philosophy that has been neglected in the recent past. e author also views it as a contribution to the history of how human beings have
Journal
Early Science and Medicine – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007