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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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"In Nature's Dress." The Anthropocene, Talking Nature and the Poetry of Margaret Cavendish

RiCognizioni, 2023
This paper examines a selection of poems on nature by Margaret Cavendish, an English poet and natural philosopher active in the mid-seventeenth century.
Alessio Mattana
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Margareth Cavendish Bell in Campo [PDF]

Questo volume presenta la traduzione integrale inedita di Bell in Campo (1662), opera teatrale di Margaret Cavendish. Nella sua introduzione Maria Giulia Sestito ricostruisce il contesto storico e il significato politico dell’opera. Mettendo in scena una
Cavendish, Margaret
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Cavendish, Margaret [PDF]

, 2022
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 ...
Strazzoni, Andrea
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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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Margaret Cavendish on Human Beings [PDF]

, 2022
Margaret Cavendish is a vitalist, materialist, and monist. She holds that human beings and other natural kinds are parts of the one material entity, “nature.” While human beings may not be superior to other animals in many ways, Cavendish does think that
Lascano, Marcy, Lascano, M.P., Schliesser, Eric, Schliesser, E.; id_orcid   +3 more
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Individuación en Margaret Cavendish

Filosofia Unisinos
Para Cavendish la teoría de la individuación consiste en un proceso causal en el que la propia materia infinita constituye los individuos a partir de su propio movimiento.
Claudia Aguilar
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Fantasía y razón en Margaret Cavendish. O acerca del conocimiento de animales, vegetales y minerales

Daimon
Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar las nociones de fantasía y razón en dos obras de Margaret Cavendish: Fantasías filosóficas (1653) y Philosophicall Letters (Cartas filosóficas, 1664).
Claudia Aguilar
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La crítica de Margaret Cavendish a la filosofía experimental a la luz de su metafísica

Daimon, 2023
Nos proponemos estudiar las objeciones de Cavendish hacia la filosofía experimental desde una perspectiva no dicotómica para mostrar que, lejos de establecer un enfrentamiento entre la filosofía contemplativa y la experimental, la razón y la sensación ...
Sofia Calvente
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 287-308, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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