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    Anne Conway

    English philosopher

    Anne Conway was an English philosopher of the Enlightenment, whose work was in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy. Conway rejected Cartesian substance dualism and instead, argued that nature is constituted by one substance. Against the mechanists, she argued that matter is not passive, but has self-motion, perception, and life. Wikipedia

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    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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    Lady Anne Conway (nee Anne Finch) was one of a tiny minority of seventeenth-century women who was able to pursue an interest in philosophy. She was associated with the Cambridge Platonists, particularly Henry More (1614-1687). Her only surviving treatise, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, was published posthumously and anonymously in 1690. This propounds a vitalist ...
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  4. Philosophy Professor Jessica Gordon-Roth analyzes the work of 17th-century philosopher Anne Finch Conway, overlooked in part because of her gender. How does her perspective differ from other major thinkers of the time period, like Hobbes and Descartes?
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    Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy published 1690) Anne Finch Conway (1631-1679) was an English philosopher who synthesized Platonism and Judeo- Christian mysticism. Her brother studied at Cam-bridge and introduced her to Henry More, who agreed to instruct her in philosophy by letter. In 1651 she married Edward third Viscount Conway and, through him, accessed one of the ...
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    Lois Frankel, "Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway" (in Mary Ellen Waithe [ed.], A History of Women Philosophers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991) Lois Frankel, "Motion and Emanation in the Principles of Anne Conway" (delivered at conference on New Trends in Feminist Philosophy, Ohio State University, April 1985)
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    Anne Conway, also known as Lady Anne Conway, was one of the first influential female modern philosophers. Born in London in 1631, Conway was raised by Sir Heneage Finch and Elizabeth Cradock, his second wife.
  9. encyclopedia.com

    CONWAY, ANNE (1631-1679) Anne Conway (Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway), the English philosopher, was born in London. Her education was primarily informal and self-directed. Source for information on Conway, Anne (1631-1679): Encyclopedia of Philosophy dictionary.
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    Apr 8, 2023Introduction Anne Conway ( née Finch) (1631-1679), Viscountess Conway and Killultagh, played a vital part in the intellectual exchange known as the Ragley Circle, which was named after the Conway family's house (Ragley Hall) in Warwickshire. She was an interlocutor of the Cambridge Platonist philosopher Henry More and surviving evidence from their substantial correspondence shows a keen ...
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    Cambridge University Press 052183547X - Anne Conway - A Woman Philosopher - by Sarah Hutton Frontmatter/Prelims ANNE CONWAY This is the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy: her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern ...
  12. beccatarnas.com

    A Woman Philosopher A sole treatise is all that the world has inherited of the philosophical thought of Lady Anne Finch, Viscountess of Conway, yet aspects of her unique system and cosmology can be…

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