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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
Religions, 2018 This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world.
Jill Graper Hernandez
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Vitalistic Approaches to Life in Early Modern England [PDF]
Teorie vědy, 2015 Vitalistic Approaches to Life in Early Modern England Abstract: Vitalism has been given different definitions and diverse figures have been labelled as vitalists throughout the history of ideas.
Veronika Szanto
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Mycobacterial metabolic model development for drug target identification [PDF]
GigaByte, 2023 Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, and three related mycobacteria are sources of widespread infections in humans. According to the World Health Organization, Mycobacterium leprae, which causes leprosy, is still endemic ...
Bridget P. Bannerman +2 more
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Natural Philosophy, Abstraction, and Mathematics among Materialists: Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish on Light [PDF]
Philosophies, 2022 The nature of light is a focus of Thomas Hobbes’s natural philosophical project. Hobbes’s explanation of the light (lux) of lucid bodies differs across his works, from dilation and contraction in Elements of Law to simple circular motions in De corpore ...
Marcus P. Adams
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, 2016 Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher and writer active in mid-seventeenth century England. She is important not just as one of the first women active in philosophy in early modern age but as the expounder of an original scientific theory based on vitalism and materialism, by which she rejected the mechanical philosophy of Descartes and Hobbes and the ...
Andrea Strazzoni
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Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society. [PDF]
Notes Rec R Soc Lond, 2014 It is often claimed that Margaret Cavendish was an anti-experimentalist who was deeply hostile to the activities of the early Royal Society—particularly in relation to Robert Hooke's experiments with microscopes. Some scholars have argued that her views were odd or even childish, while others have claimed that they were shaped by her gender-based ...
Wilkins E.
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Review of The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Deborah Boyle
Locke Studies, 2018 A review of Deborah Boyle's recent book The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
David Cunning
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The Reason of Imagination. The Blazing Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Siri Hustvedt
Between, 2020 One of the peculiarities of 17th and 18th centuries literature is the link between knowledge and imagination, a relationship in which narration sometimes accompanies science, sometimes goes beyond it.
Valeria Cammarata
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Hacia una ética del cuidado ecológico en Margaret Cavendish
Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de FilosofíaEste artículo explora la filosofía natural de Margaret Cavendish a la luz de dos nociones centrales de la ética del cuidado −la interdependencia y la empatía−, argumentando que puede considerarse a Cavendish como una proto-teórica del cuidado ecológico.
Loreto Espinoza Marchant
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Review of "The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays by Margaret Cavendish" by Shaver. [PDF]
, 2001 Review of Anne Shaver's edition of "The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays by Margaret Cavendish" (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Daalder, Joost
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