Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

Introduction: reworking early modern metaphysics Emily Thomas; Part I. Meta-metaphysics: 1. 'Heads cast in metaphysical moulds': Damaris Masham on the method and nature of metaphysics Marcy Lascano; Part II. Metaphysics of Science: 2. 'Hermaphroditical mixtures': Margaret Cavendish on nature and art Susan James; 3. Emilie Du Chatelet: physics, metaphysics and the case of gravity Andrew Janiak; 4. Margaret Cavendish on laws and order Karen Detlefsen; Part III. Ontology: 5. Bathsua Makin and Anna Maria van Schurman: education and the metaphysics of being a woman Sara L. Uckelman; 6. Margaret Cavendish on the eternity of created matter Deborah Boyle; 7. Anne Conway on the identity of creatures over time Emily Thomas; 8. Emilie Du Chatelet and the problem of bodies Katherine Brading; Part IV. Metaphysics of Minds and Selves: 9. Elisabeth of Bohemia as a naturalistic dualist Frederique Janssen-Lauret; 10. Margaret Cavendish on the metaphysics of imagination and the dramatic force of the imaginary world David Cunning; 11. Mary Astell's malebranchean concept of the self Jacqueline Broad; Part V. Metaphysics of Morality: 12. Goodness in Anne Conway's metaphysics Sarah Hutton; 13. On Catharine Trotter Cockburn's metaphysics of morality Patricia Sheridan.