Mary Shepherd and the Meaning of ‘Life’

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (2):208-225 (2021)
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In the final chapters of her 1824 Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, Lady Mary Shepherd considers what it means for an organism to be alive. The physician William Lawrence had...

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Deborah Boyle
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Shepherd on reason.David Landy - 2023 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (1):79-99.
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain.Alison Stone - 2023 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century.Robert M. Young - 1971 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 22 (2):200-202.
Mary Shepherd on Mind, Soul, and Self.Deborah Boyle - 2020 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1):93-112.
Frankenstein.Mary Shelley & J. Paul Hunter - 1997 - Utopian Studies 8 (1):230-231.

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