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Conway and Charleton on the Intimate Presence of Souls in Bodies (2018)

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Little is known about the shaping and development of Anne Conway's thought in relation to her early modern contemporaries. In one part of her only surviving treatise, The Principles, Conway criticises "those doctors" who uphold a dualist theory of soul and body, a mechanist conception of body (as dead and inert), and the view that the soul is "intimately present" in the body. In this paper, I argue that here she targets Walter Charleton, a well-known defender of Epicurean atomism in mid-seventeenth-century England. My intention is to highlight the sophistication of Conway's theory of soul-body relations vis-a-vis that of Charleton.

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Authors & Contributors
Thomas, Emily
Ryan, Ann Marie
Votava, Jennie M.
Sobol, Valeria
Smith, Justin E. H.
Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Concepts
Philosophy
Mind and body
Soul (philosophy)
Dualism
Natural philosophy
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
20th century
19th century
Places
England
United States
Russia
Greece
France
Europe
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