Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9781316631003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 303 str.

Emily Thomas

Opis

Investigates early modern women philosophers' views on metaphysics, including matter, time and mind. It uncovers neglected perspectives and demonstrates their historical importance. Cutting-edge and fully contextualised, this volume will be essential for scholars and students of early modern philosophy, religion and science, as well as of the history of feminism.

Spis treści

Introduction: reworking early modern metaphysics Emily Thomas; Part I. Meta-metaphysics: 1. 'Heads cast in metaphysical moulds': Damaris Masham on the method and nature of metaphysics Marcy Lascano; Part II. Metaphysics of Science: 2. 'Hermaphroditical mixtures': Margaret Cavendish on nature and art Susan James; 3. Émilie Du Châtelet: physics, metaphysics and the case of gravity Andrew Janiak; 4. Margaret Cavendish on laws and order Karen Detlefsen; Part III. Ontology: 5. Bathsua Makin and Anna Maria van Schurman: education and the metaphysics of being a woman Sara L. Uckelman; 6. Margaret Cavendish on the eternity of created matter Deborah Boyle; 7. Anne Conway on the identity of creatures over time Emily Thomas; 8. Émilie Du Châtelet and the problem of bodies Katherine Brading; Part IV. Metaphysics of Minds and Selves: 9. Elisabeth of Bohemia as a naturalistic dualist Frederique Janssen-Lauret; 10. Margaret Cavendish on the metaphysics of imagination and the dramatic force of the imaginary world David Cunning; 11. Mary Astell's malebranchean concept of the self Jacqueline Broad; Part V. Metaphysics of Morality: 12. Goodness in Anne Conway's metaphysics Sarah Hutton; 13. On Catharine Trotter Cockburn's metaphysics of morality Patricia Sheridan.