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Cavendish (Paperback)
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Cavendish (Paperback)
Series: Arguments of the Philosophers
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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.
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