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    The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue.Matthew L. Jones - 2006 - University of Chicago Press.
    Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind—guidance for living a good life. _The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution_ presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in (...)
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    Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise.Matthew L. Jones - 2001 - Critical Inquiry 28 (1):40-71.
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  3. (1 other version)Decision trees, random forests, and the genealogy of the black box.Matthew L. Jones - 2022 - In Morgan G. Ames & Massimo Mazzotti (eds.), Algorithmic modernity: mechanizing thought and action, 1500-2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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    (1 other version)Matters of fact.Matthew L. Jones - 2010 - Modern Intellectual History 7 (3):629-642.
    At the end of Matters of Exchange , Harold Cook's major revisionist account of the early modern scientific revolution, he locates the political and economic writings of Bernard Mandeville within the practices and values of contemporaneous Dutch observational medicine. Like Mandeville, Cook describes the potency of early modern capitalism and its attendant value system in generating industry and knowledge; like Mandeville, Cook finds coercive systems of moral regulation to be mistaken in their estimation of human capacities; and like Mandeville, Cook (...)
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    Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum, and the Pensées.Matthew L. Jones - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 32 (1):139-181.
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    Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe[REVIEW]Matthew L. Jones - 2018 - Isis 109 (4):852-853.
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    (1 other version)Stephen A. McKnight. The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon’s Thought. xii + 193 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. $37.50. [REVIEW]Matthew L. Jones - 2007 - Isis 98 (2):387-388.
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