Observations upon experimental philosophy /
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Author / Creator: | Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xlvii, 287 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117182 |
Other authors / contributors: | O'Neill, Eileen. |
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ISBN: | 0511013655 9780511013652 9781139164504 1139164503 0521772044 0521776759 9780521772044 9780521776752 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle. She also rejects the views of nature which 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. |
Other form: | Print version: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Observations upon experimental philosophy. Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521772044 |
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