{"product_id":"mary-shepherd-a-guide-paperback","title":"Mary Shepherd: A Guide - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScottish philosopher Lady Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) wrote two books that she conceived as one unified project: \u003cem\u003eEssay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect \u003c\/em\u003e(1824) and \u003cem\u003eEssays on the Perception of an External Universe\u003c\/em\u003e (1827). While they were well received in her day, Shepherd's insightful philosophical writings have been neglected for some 150 years and are only now receiving the scholarly attention they deserve. \u003cem\u003eMary Shepherd: A Guide\u003c\/em\u003e by Deborah Boyle, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, navigates students of philosophy or general readers through Shepherd's two significant works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first four chapters address topics raised in the 1824 \u003cem\u003eEssay\u003c\/em\u003e: Shepherd's arguments for two key causal principles, her objections to Hume and her alternative accounts of causation and causal inference; her theory of objects as bundles of qualities; her critique of Thomas Brown's defence of Humean causation; and her discussion of London surgeon William Lawrence's accounts of sentience and life, which Shepherd treats as a case study of how Humean theory can lead to errors in scientific reasoning. Chapter 5 covers topics central to both of Shepherd's books: what she means by \"sensation,\" \"idea,\" \"will,\" \"imagination,\" \"understanding,\" \"reasoning,\" and \"latent reasoning.\" The remaining five chapters proceed systematically through Shepherd's 1827 book, where she seeks to prove, against Berkeleian idealism, that we can know that an external world of mind-independent matter exists. Boyle discusses Shepherd's proofs for such an external world, her responses to various sceptical challenges, \u003cbr\u003eand her specific objections to Berkeley. Each chapter ends with a list of works for further reading and a glossary of terms that explain Shepherd's sometimes idiosyncratic philosophical vocabulary, resulting in an essential guide to a philosopher who exerted considerable influence during her time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Boyle\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2018), among other titles. She has published articles and book chapters on Cavendish, Shepherd, Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Descartes, and Hume. She is also the editor of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of the History of Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.28 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47277986414841,"sku":"9780190090333","price":63.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UUJaWS9vWkZGNFF4M1VZS2FDMkIxZz09.webp?v=1769002453","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mary-shepherd-a-guide-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}