Education
Ph.D. – Harvard University, 2000
M.Phil – Cambridge University, 1995
B.A. – Harvard University, 1994

Current Departmental Service
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Spending Priorities Committee
Graduate Admissions Committee

Interests and Research
Matthew L. Jones, associate professor, specializes in the cultural history of science and philosophy in early modern Europe. He received degrees from Harvard and Cambridge. With the support of the National Science Foundation, he is writing a philosophical, technical and labor history of early-modern calculating machines. He is also working on a book project, Love, Inclination and Inertia, about the intertwined history of natural and social cohesion, from the late scholastics to Emilie Du Châtelet. His publications include The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2006); “Descartes’s Geometry as Spiritual Exercise,” Critical Inquiry 28 (2001); and “Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum and Sentiment,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32 (2001).