Matthew Jones

Wisdom Scientist Name Matthew Jones Key Role Wisdom-related Research Background Studies write the background Style Universities MPhil University of Cambridge<be>PhD Harvard University Graduate Year 2000 Links write the links

Prof. Matthew Jones is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Associate Professor, History

Columbia University, United States

Matthew L. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He received his MPhil from University of Cambridge in 1995 and his PhD from Harvard University in 2000. He specializes in the cultural history of science and philosophy in early modern Europe. With the support of the National Science Foundation, he is completing a philosophical, technical and labor history of early-modern calculating machines. His latest project concerns the relationship of wisdom, mathematics, and formal reasoning in the European Enlightenment. His publications include The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Matthew has suggested the wisdom and mathematics in the European Enlightenment.

Source: Center for Practical Wisdom, University of Chicago