Cavendish on life

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This paper argues that Margaret Cavendish is a metaphysical deflationist about life. That is, it claims that, in Cavendish's mature philosophy, life is no metaphysical kind. From this it also follows that claims about matter being alive play no role in Cavendish's (natural) philosophy. On my reading, living is identical with (natural) being, Cavendish has no problem of life, and the label of vitalism is explanatorily vacuous as applied to her philosophy.
Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)697–715
Aantal pagina's19
TijdschriftNotes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume77
Nummer van het tijdschrift4
Vroegere onlinedatum31-mei-2023
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StatusPublished - 1-nov.-2023

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