Going through the motions: memory and remembrance in Cavendish.
Margaret Cavendish's conception of memory has received little scholarly attention. Here, I taxonomize various notions of memory within her system, focusing primarily on a crucial distinction between what she calls 'memory' and what she calls 'remembrance'. I will argue that Cavendish considers remem...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 1120 - 1143 |
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