Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil

MARGARET CAVENDISH AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY by

It is often claimed that Margaret Cavendish was an anti-experimentalist who was deeply hostile to the activities of the early Royal Society—particularly in relation to Robert Hooke’s experiments with microscopes. Some scholars have argued that her views were odd or even childish, while others have claimed that they were shaped by her genderbased status as a scientific ‘outsider’. In this paper ...

Plantinga and the Logical Problem of Evil

the problem of divine hiddenness

این رساله به مساله احتجاب الهی و مشکلات برهان مبتنی بر این مساله میپردازد. مساله احتجاب الهی مساله ای به قدمت ادیان است که به طور خاصی در مورد ادیان ابراهیمی اهمیت پیدا میکند. در ادیان ابراهیمی با توجه به تعالی خداوند و در عین حال خالقیت و حضور او و سخن گفتن و ارتباط شهودی او با بعضی از انسانهای ساکن زمین مساله ای پدید میاید با پرسشهایی از قبیل اینکه چرا ارتباط مستقیم ویا حداقل ارتباط وافی به ب...

Margaret McCartney: The ethics of behavioural incentives.

Sticks and carrots; push and pull. Research has shown that providing £400 worth of shopping voucher incentives raised the chances of pregnant women stopping smoking from 8.6% to 22.5%. Some low quality evidence has found that financial incentives to breast feed can increase its prevalence, and further research is ongoing. 3 And cash rewards reduce smoking rates, but few trials have reported suc...

Artic le Scattered remains and paper bodies : Margaret Cavendish and the Siege of Colchester

Many histories of the civil war and biographies of Margaret Lucas Cavendish recount the story that, in 1648, parliamentary soldiers desecrated the Lucas family tomb, scattered the remains of Cavendish’s mother and sister, and tore out the corpses’ hair to wear in their hats. Tracking down the sources of this widely repeated story, this essay examines the role of textual accounts in producing th...