Early Modern Women on MetaphysicsThe work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female figures: Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Émilie Du Châtelet. Investigating issues from eternity to free will and from body to natural laws, the essays uncover long-neglected perspectives and demonstrate their importance for philosophical debates, both then and now. Combining careful philosophical analysis with discussion of the intellectual and historical context of each thinker, they will set the agenda for future enquiry and will appeal to scholars and students of the history of metaphysics, science, religion and feminism. |
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Contents
Margaret Cavendish | 31 |
Physics Metaphysics and the Case | 49 |
Margaret Cavendish on Laws and Order | 72 |
Education | 95 |
Margaret Cavendish on the Eternity of Created Matter | 111 |
Anne Conway on the Identity of Creatures over Time | 131 |
Émilie Du Châtelet and the Problem of Bodies | 150 |
Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist | 171 |
Margaret Cavendish on the Metaphysics of Imagination | 188 |
Mary Astells Malebranchean Concept of the Self | 211 |
Goodness in Anne Conways Metaphysics | 229 |
On Catharine Trotter Cockburns Metaphysics | 247 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Early Modern Women on Metaphysics |
| Editor | Emily Thomas |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1107178681, 9781107178687 |
| Length | 295 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Renaissance History / Social History Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Philosophy / Metaphysics |
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