cavendish philosophical letters

A general collection of discourses of the virtuosi of France, upon questions of all sorts of philosophy, and other natural knowledg made in the assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris, by the most ingenious persons of that nation / render’d into English by G. Havers, Gent.. Hobbes, Thomas. Topic: On the claim that Cavendish has contradicted an earlier view she held. Topic: Hobbes on dreams Lisa T. Sarasohn, "A Science Turned Upside Down: Feminism and the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish," Huntington Library Quarterly, 47 (1984) 299-307. —. Of the Gas of Water (van Helmont 1662, pp.70-7), Number: 3.5 —. Narramore, Kathyrn Coad. Found insideThis volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others. Reference: Antidote against Atheism 1.2.1, Number: 2.12 Topic: Hobbes on scent The references in this letter all appear to be to the first chapter of the second part of Boyle 1664. Professor Stewart Duncan has assembled a helpful outline of Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters (1664), which he originally posted and continues to update on his website. Topic: The infinity of matter; a defence of aspects of Cavendish’s view She’s also the perfect character to open students (and their teachers) up to a different seventeenth century, and a different cast of philosophical characters. This is an ideal book to use in the classroom. The others she presumably had translated for her. Topic: Volume in different spaces, Number: 1.28 Topic: On Galileo on upwards, downwards, forwards, and backwards, and circular and straight, Number: 4.5 Topic: On failings of Cavendish’s Philosophical Opinions, and on whether we can know the truth in natural philosophy, Number: 4.28 Margaret Cavendish. Reference: Leviathan 1, Number: 1.5 Topic: More on the passivity of matter That would be Glanvill (1662). Reference: Immortality of the Soul 1.1.7, Number: 2.13 Number: 3.23 Reference: De Corpore 8, Number: 1.17 Topic: On the purging of the brain Topic: On logic and sophistry. I have modernized Cavendish's spelling and grammar for the sake of clarity 2 Shapin, S. and Schaffer, S. (1985) Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, Princeton University Press 3 On Cavendish's natural philosophy, see Sarasohn, L.T. Topic: Descartes on the little parts of things 1657. In letter 33 of the Philosophical letters, following a detailed critique of Henry More’s philosophy of witches, Cavendish gives her opinion on ‘the Book that treats of the Pre-existence of Souls, and the Key that unlocks the Divine Providence’. Called the Position, Number: 3.28 1654. That would be Reference: Principles 3.46, Number: 1.34 In the Discourse on the Method, Descartes attempts to prove that animals are mere machines, lacking reason and, by extension, consciousness. “Canonizing Cavendish” If you haven’t heard anything about the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish yet, you will soon, and David Cunning’s new book may well have a hand in it. 46–66] Her later works, such as Philosophical Letters (1664) ... a Utopian fantasy that brings together Cavendish's philosophical speculations, political beliefs, and social concerns. van Helmont, J.B. 1662. Is N.M. just a device to give another voice to Cavendish (M.N.)? Douglas Grant. Many of her works address such issues as natural philosophy, gender, power and manners. Margaret Lucas Cavendish \(1623-73\) claimed that everything in the world \(including minds\) is material. Margaret had a many works published, a few of which being - Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1656), Philosophical Letters (1664) and Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668). Reference: Antidote against Atheism 2.2, Number: 2.22 Topic: On van Helmont on witches, Number: 3.17 More, Henry. See the ch. Topic: Descartes on place Reference: Ch. 1660. Reference: These questions appear all to be drawn, more or less directly, from Gideon Harvey 1663, also discussed and described as “your new Author” back in 4.10-12. —. That would be Reference: Of the disease of the Stone, Ch. Number: 4.26 (1664).” Parergon 26.2 (2009): 39-64. Reference: In his Treatise of Fevers, c. 5, Number: 3.35 Number: 3.22 44 M. Cavendish, Philosophical Letters (hereafter Letters) (London, 1664), p. 283. Topic: Assorted questions about own view answered, Number: 1.44 Topic: On van Helmont on health and diseases Topic: Assorted questions about own view answered, Number: 2.1 —. Number: 4.22 Havers, G. Number: 1.40 294–295. Topic: On the weight of water Cavendish, Margaret. Of an Irregular Meteor, Ch. Reference: Gideon Harvey 1663, perhaps Part 2, Book 1, Chapter 8, “Of the absolute and Respective Form of Earth, Water, Ayr, and Fire”. Topic: More on passions and sympathies Nature is ignorant of Contraries, In the Hist. —. 17, Number: 3.40 80– 81, 148–50, 444–49, 516–19, 539–40] Week 6 (9/29) Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Chapter VI, Chapter VIII [Atherton pp. Number: 3.13 Topic: Echoes again, and images in mirrors, Number: 1.26 Note: I use this for all other content, of which there is not much. Du Verger, Suzanne. Cavendish refers to two of Hobbes’ works, Leviathan and the English version of De Corpore. Reference: De Corpore 8, Number: 1.18 1649. Section 1 of the Philosophical Letters largely engages with Hobbes and Descartes, section 2 with More, and section 3 with J.B. van Helmont. Reference: Du Verger (1657) Topic: More on dimness of sight It. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr Henry More … as namely, his Antidote against atheism, Appendix to the said antidote, Enthusiasmus triumphatus, Letters to Des-Cartes, &c., Immortality of the soul, Conjectura cabbalistica. This page presents a handful of the letters in Margaret Cavendish’s 1664 Philosophical Letters. Topic: Descartes on fire Reference: Of the disease of the Stone, c. 3; Ch. "Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reason. Topic: More on perception, sensation, and motion Number: 4.12 Unlike most women of her day, who wrote anonymously, she published her works under her own name. Number: I have numbered all the letters by section and letter. Reference: Immortality of the Soul 1.1.4, Number: 2.4 [12], 542 p. Title from table of contents page (viewed on April 18, 2005). Cavendish's Philosophical Letters and Sociable Letters are both collections of familiar letters addressed to an unnamed female friend simply referred to as 'Madam'. The Philosophical Letters (1664) gives us Cavendish’s view of what was interesting and important in the philosophical world at that moment, a view of philosophy as it was at the time by an engaged participant. Reference: Of the Stone, ch 6. The Position is demonstrated. London: [s.n. The Philosophical and Physical … Her significance as a rhetorical theorist has two main dimensions. Reference: Antidote against Atheism 2.2-3, Number: 2.6 Reference: Leviathan 6, Number: 1.13 Of the Gas of Water (van Helmont 1662, pp.70-7), Number: 3.5 As published, that letter is signed “Huygens de Zulichem”; “V.Z.” would be “van Zuilichem”. Topic: On generation, with some reference to Harvey, Number: 4.4 Descartes, René. Section 1 of the Philosophical Letters largely engages with Hobbes and Descartes, section 2 with More, and section 3 with J.B. van Helmont. Reference: Ch. Reference: Ch. Reference: In his Treatise of Time. Topic: On “Whether Respiration be common to all animal Creatures?”, Number: 4.8 Number: 1.41 1655. Topic: More on enlarging the understanding Reference: Antidote against Atheism 3. Of the Image of the Mind, Number: 3.21 Note: Who is Lady N.M.? In Familiar Epistolary Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters (1664), Diana Barnes asserts that “Although Cavendish was well read in philosophy she was not well trained in its modes of argumentation and proof” (1). Topic: On van Helmont on the plagues of beast and men Occasionally Cavendish refers to someone she has talked to. Topic: On van Helmont on earthquakes again, Number: 3.10 Topic: On van Helmont on health and diseases Reference: Ch. Reference: The creation story of Genesis 1, and the Nicene Creed, Number: 1.3 Antidote against Atheism. Reference: Leviathan 2, Number: 1.8 3, Number: 3.29 Although the letter-writer closely resembles the author, her letters are anonymously signed 'Your Faithful Friend and Servant'. Reference: Immortality of the Soul 1.1.12, Number: 2.8 —. English translation of Hobbes’s 1655 De Corpore. Margaret Lucas Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright who lived in the seventeenth century. Reference: Of Cauteries, Number: 3.36 Topic: On van Helmont on a sudden death without decay or disorder in the body Perhaps her self-debasing comments can be cast into the social expectations of the 17th Century, when women scarcely ventured beyond household subjects for fear of the effrontery they might present to male pedantry. Topic: A series of further clarifications, (All seventeenth-century English language works published in London, unless otherwise stated.). The hunting or searching out of Sciences. Reference: Leviathan 4, Number: 1.11 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference: De Corpore 7.12, Number: 1.16 Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical Letters, or, Modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy Maintained by Several Famous and Learned Authors of this Age, expressed by way of letters / by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle: Philosophical Letters, Cavendish devotes the most attention to challenging van Helmont . Reference: Antidote against Atheism Appendix 11, Number: 2.11 Topic: On van Helmont on how time relates to motion Topic: van Helmont on what freezes water Cavendish, Margaret. (1664) Harvey, William. Topic: Hobbes on sense and animal motion in De Corpore So she’s triply excluded from the textbook narrative. By investing thoughtful reflections into texts such as Philosophical Letters, she has earned the right to attract such attention for many years to come. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed & rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life. Reference: Ch. “Cavendish , Margaret, duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673).”, James FitzmauriceOxford Dictionary of National Biography. Number: 4.14 call’d The Spirit of Life, Number: 3.33 Margaret provides what is believed to be the first critique of Shakespeare in CCXIU Sociable Letters (Whitaker, p. 258). All subsequent quotations from Philosophical Letters are from this edition and will be cited parenthetically within the text by page number. Cavendish appears to have been reading van Helmont (1662). Reference: Immortality of the Soul 2.4, Number: 2.20 Nature is ignorant of Contraries, In the Hist. Reference: Antidote against Atheism 1.5, Number: 2.21 5 November 2014. http://digitalcavendish.org/resources/letters-in-the-philosophical-letters/. Cavendish, Philosophical Letters (selections: MA 21-24, bottom of 33 through middle of 38) 9/26: The Real Distinction Argument and Mind-Body Interaction Assignment: Second Letter (to partner 2) 9/28: Debating Interaction Week 5: One Thing: Spinoza on Substance Monism READINGS: Biographical Introduction to Spinoza (MP 111-113) Of the manner of entrance of things darted into the body. 6 Cavendish, Philosophical Letters (London, 1664), 323. Note: Cavendish comments briefly on a work criticizing passages in her World’s Olio on monastical life. Of the Image of the Soul. Number: 1.35 Reference: Leviathan 2-3, Number: 1.9 Number: 3.19 Reference: In his Treatise called. Reference: Antidote against Atheism 1.10.5, Number: 2.2 Topic: Cavendish’s opinion of the philosophers themselves, Number: 4.20 Stewart Duncan is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Florida. Lawrence. By examining letters from Glanvill to Cavendish and Cavendish’s comments in Philosophical Letters and Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, this article reconstructs the debate between the two philosophers regarding the existence of witches. —. Reference: The reference to “your Authors opinion” is again to Gideon Harvey 1663. and his questions “concerning those glasses, one of which being held close in ones hand, and a little piece being broke of its tail, makes as great a noise as the discharging of a Gun”. Note: Cavendish comments briefly on a work criticizing passages in her World’s Olio on monastical life. Principles of Philosophy. Topic: On a “new Author that treats of Natural Philosophy” on infinite matter Reference: Principles 4.189, Dioptrics 1.2-3, 4.1, Number: 1.38 Amazon.in - Buy Philosophical Letters, Abridged book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Topic: More on the soul’s indivisibility, Number: 2.23 Reference: Includes a references to a Mr V.Z., and his questions “concerning those glasses, one of which being held close in ones hand, and a little piece being broke of its tail, makes as great a noise as the discharging of a Gun”. Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of. Reference: Principles 4.189, Dioptrics 1.2-3, 4.1, Number: 1.38 Reference: Of Cauteries, Number: 3.36 The Image of the Ferment begets the Mass with Child. Topic: More against self-moving matter ... Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Topic: More on the existence of a natural incorporeal substance Topic: A series of further clarifications, (All seventeenth-century English language works published in London, unless otherwise stated.). It. Number: 3.39 Topic: More on whether matter can sense Reference: Ch. "A double perception in all creatures": Margaret Cavendish's philosophical letters and seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Stephen Clucas; Natural magic in the convent of pleasure / John Shanahan; Margaret Cavendish's cabbala: the empress and the spirits in the blazing world / Perrin Radley; Margaret Cavendish and the Jews / Sara Mendelson Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Topic: On van Helmont’s comparison of the soul and the sun Topic: On van Helmont on how time relates to motion 4.2 discusses “the Book of that most learned and famous Physician and Anatomist, Dr. Harvey, which treats of Generation”. University of Alabama Libraries’ Classic, Sarasohn, Lisa T. “Leviathan And The Lady: Cavendish’s Critique Of Hobbes In The, Philosophical Letters.” Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of. Margaret Cavendish. Number: 3.44 Reference: These descriptions of texts referred to are largely the ones that Cavendish herself gives in the text of the Philosophical Letters. Topic: On learning nature’s secrets using microscopes and other machines. Topic: More against motion being a principle of nature New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine). Author: Christa Jungnickel Publisher: Pro BUSINESS ISBN: 394556106X Topic: On “the ascending nature of fire”, Number: 4.17 A discourse of a method for the well-guiding of reason, and the discovery of truth in the sciences. Reference: In his Promises, Column. There are few documents like it in the history of philosophy. 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