{"product_id":"cavendish-paperback","title":"Cavendish - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Cunning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important insights that bear on recent discussions of the nature and characteristics of intelligence and the question of whether or not the bodies that surround us are intelligent or have an intelligent cause; it anticipates some of the central views and arguments that are more commonly associated with figures like Thomas Hobbes and David Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first full account of Cavendish's philosophy and covers the whole span of her work. David Cunning begins with an overview of Cavendish's life and work before assessing her contribution to a wide range of philosophical subjects, including her arguments concerning materialism, experimentation, the existence of God, social and political philosophy and free will and compatibilism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSetting Cavendish in both historical and philosophical context, he argues that like Spinoza she builds on central tenets of Descartes' philosophy and develops them in a direction that Descartes himself would avoid. She defends a plenum metaphysics according to which all individuals are causally interdependent, and according to which the physical universe is a larger individual that constitutes all of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCavendish is essential reading for students of seventeenth-century philosophy, early modern philosophy and seventeenth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Cunning\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArgument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and \u003ci\u003eEveryday Examples: An Introduction to Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations \u003c\/i\u003e(2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702804680767,"sku":"9780367138516","price":143.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fd57e6b887d7d44558b9a5a5468c9f53.webp?v=1765026461","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/cavendish-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}