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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 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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"Many a good, old honest woman hath been condemned innocently": Cavendish and Glanvill on witchcraft [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualMargaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill disagreed over the reality of witchcraft. In her assessment of the exchange between the two, Jacqueline Broad finds that Cavendish was the "voice of scientific reason", not only because of her disbelief in ...
Vuletić Miloš
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Review of Deborah Boyle on Margaret Cavendish
ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2020 A review of Deborah Boyle's book The Well-Ordered Universe (2018), by Dustin D. Stewart.
Dustin Stewart
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La lectrice à l’œuvre dans les fictions scientifiques
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2023 En 1666, Margaret Cavendish fait paraître deux éditions d’un même texte de fiction, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, respectivement adressées à un lectorat masculin et féminin. Cette double adresse se double d’un geste éditorial
Marie Gall
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1999 This is a bibliography of prose fiction written by English women in the seventeenth century. It includes sections on general bibliographies, studies and anthologies, and on the various writers involved (Mary Wroth, Anna Weamys, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra ...
Figueroa Dorrego, Jorge
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A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science
Philosophies, 2022 This paper reconstructs Margaret Cavendish’s theory of the metaphysics of artifacts. It situates her anti-mechanist account of artifactual production and the art-nature distinction against a background of Aristotelian, Scholastic, and mechanist theories.
Jonathan L. Shaheen
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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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