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Is Margaret Cavendish a naïve realist? [PDF]
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 321-341, June 2024.Abstract Perception plays a central and wide‐ranging role in the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish. In this paper, I argue that Cavendish holds a naïve realist theory of perception. The case draws on what Cavendish has to say about perceptual presentation, the role of sympathy in experience, the natures of hallucination and of illusion, and the ...
Daniel Whiting
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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 ...
Strazzoni, Andrea, Andrea Strazzoni
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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil
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 Hernández
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Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society [PDF]
Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 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 ...
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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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Lucy Hutchinson and Margaret Cavendish: Civil War and Enemy Commiseration
Humanities, 2019 Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), prolific writers from the seventeenth century, came of age in one of the most difficult times in British history. Blair Worden, an eminent historian, writes, “The political
Yousef Deikna
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Margaret cavendish on passion, pleasure, and propriety [PDF]
Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchAbstractIn this paper, I present three claims belonging to Cavendish's theory of the passions. First, positive and negative passions are species of love and hate. Second, love and hate involve pleasure and pain. Third, pleasure and pain are regular and irregular, where these notions are to be understood in teleological terms. From these commitments, it
Daniel Whiting
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Margaret Cavendish: political writings
, 2003 Book synopsis: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political
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Part of nature and division in Margaret Cavendish’s materialism
SynthÈse, 2017 This paper pursues a question about the spatial relations between the three types of matter posited in Margaret Cavendish's metaphysics.
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Margaret Cavendish acerca del escepticismo, los sueños y la fantasía (fancy)
Ideas y Valores, 2023 Este artículo analiza la posición de Margaret Cavendish sobre la realidad y la ficción en los sueños y su papel dentro del escepticismo moderado de su filosofía.
Silvia Manzo
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