Early Modern Women on Metaphysics
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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

About this book

The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female figures: Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Émilie Du Châtelet. Investigating issues from eternity to free will and from body to natural laws, the essays uncover long-neglected perspectives and demonstrate their importance for philosophical debates, both then and now. Combining careful philosophical analysis with discussion of the intellectual and historical context of each thinker, they will set the agenda for future enquiry and will appeal to scholars and students of the history of metaphysics, science, religion and feminism.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781107178687
eBook ISBN
9781316836255
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Reworking Early Modern Metaphysics
  9. Part I Meta-Metaphysics
  10. Chapter 1 ‘Heads Cast in Metaphysical Moulds’: Damaris Masham on the Method and Nature of Metaphysics
  11. Part II Metaphysics of Science
  12. Part III Ontology
  13. Part IV Metaphysics of Minds and Selves
  14. Part V Metaphysics of Morality
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index