
Steven Nadler (ed.)
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Published online:
09 May 2019
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25 April 2019
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9780191875489
Print ISBN:
9780198796909
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1. Conway’s Principles: Overview 1. Conway’s Principles: Overview
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2. Conway and Cartesian Natural Philosophy 2. Conway and Cartesian Natural Philosophy
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3. Conway and Platonism 3. Conway and Platonism
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4. Conway’s Rejection of Cartesian Matter 4. Conway’s Rejection of Cartesian Matter
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4.1. The Passivity Argument 4.1. The Passivity Argument
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4.2. The Sameness Argument 4.2. The Sameness Argument
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4.3. The Perfectibility Argument 4.3. The Perfectibility Argument
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5. Conclusion: Conway’s Radical Vitalism 5. Conclusion: Conway’s Radical Vitalism
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Chapter
44 Anne Conway’s Response to Cartesianism
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Christia Mercer
Christia Mercer
Columbia University
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Columbia University, New York
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707–720
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Published:09 May 2019
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Mercer, Christia, 'Anne Conway’s Response to Cartesianism', in Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford Handbooks (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 9 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.44, accessed 16 May 2025.
Abstract
Anne Conway (1631–79) was an English philosopher whose only work, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, was published posthumously in 1690. Conway’s arguments against Descartes’s account of matter constitute a cutting criticism of his views and offer significant insight into an important and under-studied anti-Cartesian trend in the second half of the seventeenth century. Conway’s response to Descartes helps us discern some of the more original and radical ideas in her philosophy. Like so many other significant early modern women, Conway was left out of the history of philosophy by later thinkers.
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