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Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA For many years, Cavendish's philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning's book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker. - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia

Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA For many years, Cavendish's philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning's book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker. - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia

"""Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments."" - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA ""For many years, Cavendish’s philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning’s book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker."" - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia"

""Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments."" - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA ""For many years, Cavendish’s philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning’s book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker."" - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia

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David Cunning is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations (2010), and Everyday Examples: An Introduction to Philosophy (2014), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations (2014).

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