Cavendish Arguments of the Philosophers Series
Auteur : Cunning David
Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important insights that bear on recent discussions of the nature and characteristics of intelligence and the question of whether or not the bodies that surround us are intelligent or have an intelligent cause; it anticipates some of the central views and arguments that are more commonly associated with figures like Thomas Hobbes and David Hume.
This is the first full account of Cavendish?s philosophy and covers the whole span of her work. David Cunning begins with an overview of Cavendish?s life and work before assessing her contribution to a wide range of philosophical subjects, including her arguments concerning materialism, experimentation, the existence of God, social and political philosophy and free will and compatibilism.
Setting Cavendish in both historical and philosophical context, he argues that like Spinoza she builds on central tenets of Descartes? philosophy and develops them in a direction that Descartes himself would avoid. She defends a plenum metaphysics according to which all individuals are causally interdependent, and according to which the physical universe is a larger individual that constitutes all of reality.
Cavendish is essential reading for students of seventeenth-century philosophy, early modern philosophy and seventeenth-century literature.
Introduction 1. Imagistic Ideas, Fallibilism, and the Limits of Cognition 2. Thinking Matter 3. Ideas of God and Other Immaterials 4. The Eternal Plenum 5. Ubiquitous Knowledge 6. Free Will and Agency 7. Stoical Fancies 8. A Note to the Monarch. Index
David Cunning is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations (2010), and Everyday Examples: An Introduction to Philosophy (2014), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations (2014).
Date de parution : 01-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 01-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
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Margaret Cavendish; seventeenth century philosophy; materialism; dualism; intelligent design; history of science; compatibilism; Spinoza; Hobbes; Hume; Immaterial Entities; Incorporeal Motion; Cavendish’s View; Innate Matter; Imagistic Ideas; Blazing World; Self-moving Matter; External World Skepticism; Non-human Bodies; Rational Matter; Van Helmont; Imagistic Picture; Immaterial Spirits; Immaterial Souls; Divers Sorts; Imaginary Fancies; Wise Monarchs; Libertarian Freedom; Lady Contemplation; Cavendish’s Argument; Immaterial Minds; LADY VICTORIA; Mind Body Interaction; Sociable Letters; Ubiquitous Knowledge