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10Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment by Gordon GrahamReview of Metaphysics 76 (3): 551-553. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment by Gordon GrahamDeborah BoyleGRAHAM, Gordon. Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. xvii + 254 pp. Cloth, $110.00Histories of Scottish philosophy typically focus on the school of "common sense" from the eighteenth century, beginning with Francis Hutcheson and ending with Dugald Stewart. As Gordon Graham notes in the preface to t…Read more
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9Lady Mary Shepherd: Selected WritingsImprint Academic. 2018.The philosophical writings of Lady Mary Shepherd (1777–1847) reveal an astute and lively intellect. In An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect (1824) and Essays on the Perception of an External Universe, and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation (1827), Shepherd engaged critically with the views of Hume, Berkeley, Reid, Stewart, de Condillac, and others, but she also presented an original and carefully argued philosophical system of her own. Highly regarded in her day, S…Read more
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8Joanna Baillie on Sympathetic Curiosity and Elizabeth Hamilton's CritiqueJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1-22. forthcoming.Scholars working on recovering forgotten historical women philosophers have noted the importance of looking beyond traditional philosophical genres. This strategy is particularly important for finding Scottish women philosophers. By considering non-canonical genres, we can see the philosophical interest of the works of Scottish poet and playwright Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), who presents an account of “sympathetic curiosity” as one of the basic principles of the human mind. Baillie's work is als…Read more
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7Descartes on Innate IdeasContinuum. 2009.The concept of innateness is central to Descartes's epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding Descartes's conception of innate ideas is not an easy task, and some commentators have concluded that Descartes held several distinct and unrelated conceptions of innateness. In Descartes on Innate Ideas, Deborah Boyle argues that Descartes's remarks on innate ideas in fact form a unified accou…Read more
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7Informed by Sense and Reason: Margaret Cavendish's Theorizing About PerceptionIn Brian Glenney & José Silva (eds.), The Senses and History of Philosophy, Routledge. 2019.One method Margaret Cavendish uses is something like inference to the best explanation, and so this may be what she mean by “regular sense and reason.” As Hobbes wrote in Leviathan: the cause of Sense, is the Externall Body, or object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediatly, as in the Tast and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling. Before examining how Cavendish appeals to ordinary perceptual phenomena to argue that pressure model of perception (PMP) …Read more
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3Philosophical Letters, Abridged (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2021."Margaret Cavendish is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reason.... She’s an interesting advocate of a vitalist tradition emphasizing the inherent activity of matter, as well as its inherent perceptive faculties. She’s also the perfect character to open students up to a different seventeenth century, and a different cast of philosophical characters. This is an ideal book to use in the classroom. The _Philosophical Letter…Read more
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2The Treasure House of the Mind: Descartes' Conception of Innate IdeasDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1999.Descartes is often accused of lacking a coherent conception of innate ideas. I argue that Descartes' remarks on innate ideas actually form a unified account. "Innate idea" is triply ambiguous, but its three meanings are interdependent. "Innate idea" can mean an act of perceiving; that which is perceived; or a faculty, capacity, or disposition to have certain ideas. An innate idea qua object of thought is some thing existing objectively , which we have a capacity to perceive, but which we can onl…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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1Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (1): 3-5. 2003.
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1Margaret Cavendish's Nonfeminist Natural PhilosophyConfigurations 12 (2). 2004.Several recent papers and books have argued that Cavendish's work in natural philosophy foreshadows some twentieth-century feminist philosophers' critiques of epistemology and science. These readings fall into three groups: arguments that Cavendish's early atomistic poems present an alternative, female way of knowing; arguments that such an alternative epistemology occurs in Cavendish's _Blazing World_; and arguments that her ontology was driven by feminist concerns for the implications of atomi…Read more
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Margaret Cavendish on the eternity of created matterIn Emily Thomas (ed.), Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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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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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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