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.
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9780511034404
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2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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