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What Is It Like To Be a Material Thing? Henry More and Margaret Cavendish on the Unity of the Mind

In Donald Rutherford (ed.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume XI. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 97-136 (2022)

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  1. Veil of Light: The Role of Light in Cavendish's Visual Perception.Brooke Willow Sharp - 2023 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (51):1471-1494.
    Margaret Cavendish’s views about the nature of bodies and perception leave her with a potentially problematic implication: that light has no role in visual perception. For her, perception occurs through the self-motion of animate matter, not through a mechanical system that appeals to local motions and collisions of contiguous bodies. This means that motion is not transferred from external objects with light playing a mediating role; the matter of our eyes simply moves itself to copy the sensible qualities of external (...)
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