Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher.(Book review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

HUTTON, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 271 pp. Cloth, $75.00--In the last twenty years Lady Anne Conway, nee Finch (1631-79), has gained scholarly attention, as shown by recent encyclopedia entries on her. A Cambridge Platonist, Lady Conway critiqued Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, as well as her former tutor and lifelong correspondent, Henry More. Leibniz mentions her posthumous work positively, albeit briefly. With an impressive command of documentary and philosophical sources, Sarah Hutton contextualizes the ...

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