Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Meta-metaphysics ...............7 Heads cast in Metaphysical Moulds: Damaris Masham on the Method and Nature of Metaphysics .............9 2. Metaphysics of Science ...........29 Hermaphroditical mixtures: Margaret cavendish on Nature and art ........31 Emilie du chatelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity ...........49 Margaret cavendish on Law and Order .......72 3. Ontology ........93 Bathsua makin and anna Maria van Schurman : Education and the Metaphysics of Being a Woman .........95 Margaret cavendish on the eternity of Created matter ..111 Anne conway on the Identity of Creatures over time ......131 Emilie du Charelet and the Problem of Bodies ....150 4. Metaphysics of Minds and Selves........169 Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist ....171 Margaret cavendish on the Metaphysics of Imagination and the dramatic Force of the Imaginary world ......188 Mary astell`s Malebranchean Concept of the Self ...........211 5. Metaphysics of Morality .........227 Goodness in Anne Conway`s metaphysics .......229 On catharine trotter cockburn`s Metaphysics of Morality .............247