Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Real Author: Margaret Cavendish
- Editor: Eileen O'Neill, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Date Published: October 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521772044
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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.
Read more- First edition of this text since its publication in 1668
- One of the few texts published by a seventeenth-century woman on the topic of natural philosophy
- Historical and philosophical introduction which places Cavendish's views in their immediate context
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- Date Published: October 2001
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521772044
- length: 338 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
An argumental discourse
The table of all the principal subjects
Observations upon experimental philosophy
Further observations upon experimental philosophy
Observations upon the opinions of some ancient philosophers.
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