Early Modern Women on Metaphysics - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Introduction: Reworking Early Modern Metaphysics

pp 1-6

Part I - Meta-Metaphysics

pp 7-28

Chapter 1 - ‘Heads Cast in Metaphysical Moulds’

pp 9-28

Part II - Metaphysics of Science

pp 29-92

Chapter 2 - ‘Hermaphroditical Mixtures’

pp 31-48

Chapter 3 - Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity

pp 49-71

Chapter 4 - Margaret Cavendish on Laws and Order

pp 72-92

Part III - Ontology

pp 93-168

Chapter 5 - Bathsua Makin and Anna Maria van Schurman

pp 95-110

Chapter 6 - Margaret Cavendish on the Eternity of Created Matter

pp 111-130

Chapter 7 - Anne Conway on the Identity of Creatures over Time

pp 131-149

Chapter 8 - Émilie Du Châtelet and the Problem of Bodies

pp 150-168

Part IV - Metaphysics of Minds and Selves

pp 169-226

Chapter 9 - Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist

pp 171-187

Chapter 10 - Margaret Cavendish on the Metaphysics of Imagination and the Dramatic Force of the Imaginary World

pp 188-210

Chapter 11 - Mary Astell’s Malebranchean Concept of the Self

pp 211-226

Part V - Metaphysics of Morality

pp 227-265

Chapter 12 - Goodness in Anne Conway’s Metaphysics

pp 229-246

Chapter 13 - On Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Metaphysics of Morality

pp 247-265

Bibliography

pp 266-286

Index

pp 287-296