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Matthew L. Jones

Associate Professor
523 Fayerweather Hall
Mail Code: 2513
New York , NY 10027


Phone
work: +1 212 854 2421


Email
mj340@columbia.edu

Office Hours
Mondays, 2-4 p.m.

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Matthew L. Jones
Associate Professor
Columbia University

History

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~mj340

Curriculum Coordinator, Undergraduate Education Committee, Intro to History/Teaching Officer, Society of Fellows Committee (Fall 2008)



Biography
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).
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