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77Fame, Virtue, and Government: Margaret Cavendish on Ethics and PoliticsJournal of the History of Ideas 67 (2): 251-289. 2006.This paper offers an account of Margaret Cavendish's moral and political philosophy. In some respects Cavendish's theoury echoes Hobbes. However, although Cavendish agrees with Hobbes that morality is based on self-interest, she holds that morality derives from our natural desire for public recognition, not the desire for self-preservation. Via the desire for fame, self-love can motivate people to pursue virtue, which, for Cavendish, means establishing and maintaining a good government (in parti…Read more
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1William Lad Sessions, Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (3): 220-222. 2003.
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139Margaret Cavendish on Gender, Nature, and FreedomHypatia 28 (3): 516-532. 2013.Some scholars have argued that Margaret Cavendish was ambivalent about women's roles and capabilities, for she seems sometimes to hold that women are naturally inferior to men, but sometimes that this inferiority is due to inferior education. I argue that attention to Cavendish's natural philosophy can illuminate her views on gender. In section II I consider the implications of Cavendish's natural philosophy for her views on male and female nature, arguing that Cavendish thought that such nature…Read more
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Spontaneous and sexual generation in Conway's principlesIn Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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1Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (1): 3-5. 2003.
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33Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination - by Patricia Springborg (review)Philosophical Books 48 (4): 359-360. 2007.
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200Margaret Cavendish on Perception, Self‐Knowledge, and Probable OpinionPhilosophy Compass 10 (7): 438-450. 2015.Scholarly interest in Margaret Cavendish's philosophical views has steadily increased over the past decade, but her epistemology has received little attention, and no consensus has emerged; Cavendish has been characterized as a skeptic, as a rationalist, as presenting an alternative epistemology to both rationalism and empiricism, and even as presenting no clear theory of knowledge at all. This paper concludes that Cavendish was only a modest skeptic, for she believed that humans can achieve kno…Read more
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17David Cunning , Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (5): 321-323. 2011.
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54The Ways of the Wise: Hume’s Rules of Causal ReasoningHume Studies 38 (2): 157-182. 2012.In Hume’s own day, and for nearly two hundred years after that, readers interested in his account of causal reasoning tended to focus on the skeptical implications of that account. For example, in his 1757 View of the Principal Deistical Writers of the Last and Present Century, John Leland characterized Hume as “endeavouring to destroy all reasoning, from causes to effects, or from effects to causes.”1 According to this sort of reading, as Louis Loeb describes it, “there is equal justification f…Read more
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17Moira Gatens, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (5): 341-344. 2010.
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94Descartes' Natural Light ReconsideredJournal of the History of Philosophy 37 (4): 601-612. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Descartes’ Natural Light ReconsideredDeborah Boyle1. INTRODUCTIONThe “natural light” occupies an important position in Descartes’ Third Meditation, where the meditator invokes it to provide the premises needed for his proof for the existence of a non-deceiving God. Descartes also refers to the natural light throughout his Replies to the Objections to the Meditations and in the Principles of Philosophy. Yet he says almost nothing abou…Read more
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Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure, eds., Feminist Interpretations of John Locke Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (6): 418-421. 2009.
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168Hume on Animal ReasonHume Studies 29 (1): 3-28. 2003.In both the _Treatise and the first _Enquiry, Hume offers an argument from analogy comparing how humans and animals make causal inferences. Yet in these and other texts, he suggests that there are certain differences between human and animal reasoning. This paper discusses Hume's argument from analogy, and examines how Hume can argue for differences in human and animal reasoning without having to attribute to either a special capacity that the other lacks. Hume's empiricism and his claims about …Read more
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