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Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

By Margaret Cavendish , Eileen O'Neill

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521772044, 9780521772044, 9780511013652
Open Library ID
OL17039351M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1550343 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Pages
338\338
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

Margaret Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the picture of nature as a grand machine that was propounded by Hobbes and Descartes; she also rejects the alternative views of nature that make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.

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