A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science
This paper reconstructs Margaret Cavendish’s theory of the metaphysics of artifacts. It situates her anti-mechanist account of artifactual production and the art-nature distinction against a background of Aristotelian, Scholastic, and mechanist theories. Within this broad context, it considers what...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Philosophies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/7/5/111 |