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562Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Filosofia morale, religione, metafisica (edited book)Rubbettino. 2018.Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679- 1749) fu poetessa, drammaturga e filosofa. La vivacità intellettuale e la forte determinazione le permisero di aggirare il pregiudizio di genere e di sottrarsi alle dinamiche di marginalizzazione femminile tipiche dell’età moderna. Pur celandosi dietro l’anonimato, Cockburn prese parte attiva al dibattito filosofico del tempo, intervenendo soprattutto in materia di morale. Le sue opere filosofiche, scritte in difesa di Locke o di Clarke, custodiscono, nonostante…Read more
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36"Some Reflections upon the True Grounds of Morality"- Catharine Trotter in Defence of John LockePhilosophy Study 7 (6). 2017.Although excluded from the standard account of the history of philosophy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn avoided the 17th-century bias against female intellectual skills and was an active contributor to the early modern philosophical discourse. In her Defence of Mr. Locke’s Essay, she defended Locke from several criticisms by Thomas Burnet. By analysing three of Burnet’s main arguments, such as the theory of natural conscience, his anti-voluntarism, and his belief in the immateriality of the soul, T…Read more
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25From the Flos Substantiae to the Vortex: A Shift in Leibniz's Early PhilosophyPacific Philosophical Quarterly 95 (1): 87-108. 2014.In February 1676, one of Leibniz's main concerns is with the problem of the seat of the soul and its relationship with the body, to which, in two very short papers, he provides two different solutions: the doctrine of the flos substantiae and the vortex theory. By analyzing the former, I suggest that, despite what other scholars claim, it is far from being an earlier exposition of the notion of monad. I argue that this doctrine is entertained by Leibniz only for a period, but is rejected later o…Read more
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24John Locke and Catharine Cockburn on Personal IdentityRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2 205-220. 2021.John Locke's account of personal identity is one of his most discussed theories. Opposing the Cartesian ontology of mind, Locke argued that the soul does not always think - for thinking is simply one of its operations, but not its essence -, and that personal identity consists in consciousness alone. Against Locke, an anonymous commentator published the Remarks upon an Essay concerning Humane Understanding charging Locke's view with possible immorality. Catharine Cockburn rebuffed the Remarker's…Read more
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15On personal identity and space: some remarks on Ruth Boeker’s Catharine Trotter CockburnBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-9. forthcoming.Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749) was a versatile, learned lady, whose intellectual activity, both as a dramatist and as a philosopher, has been increasingly analysed by scholars in the last d...
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11Il dibattito tra Damaris Masham e Mary Astell sull'amore di Dio: una congettura storiografica?Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 1 36-50. 2022.
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3De summa rerum: viaggio attraverso le esplorazioni metafisiche del giovane Leibniz (1675-76)Aracne editrice S.r.l.. 2013.
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1"Conatus" e "Multitudo". Il percoso antropo-fenomenologico nel pensiero di SpinozaFilosofia Oggi 32 (125): 29-50. 2009.
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Cockburn, Catharine TrotterInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018.Catharine Trotter Cockburn Catharine Trotter Cockburn was an active contributor to early modern philosophical discourse in England, especially regarding morality. Her philosophical production was primarily in defense of John Locke and Samuel Clarke. Nevertheless, her thinking was original and independent in many respects. Cockburn’s moral philosophy combines elements of Locke's epistemology with Clarke’s fitness … Continue reading Cockburn, Catharine Trotter →
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Ruth Boeker, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, 75 pp. (review)Studi Lockiani 4. 2023.
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