Professor Emily Thomas emily.e.thomas@durham.ac.uk
Head of Department
For early modern metaphysician Anne Conway, the world comprises creatures. In some sense, Conway is a monist about creatures: all creatures are one. Yet, as Jessica Gordon-Roth (2018) has astutely pointed out, that monism can be understood in very different ways. One might read Conway as an ‘existence pluralist’: creatures are all composed of the same type of substance, but many substances exist. Alternatively, one might read Conway as an ‘existence monist’: there is only one created substance. Gordon-Roth has done the scholarship a great favor by illuminating these issues in Conway. However, this article takes issue with Gordon-Roth's further view that Conway ‘oscillates’ between the extremes of existence pluralism and monism. In its place, I argue we should read Conway as a priority monist: the whole of creation is ontologically prior to its parts.
Thomas, E. (2020). Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(3), 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 4, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 20, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jan 4, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 1, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of the American Philosophical Association |
Print ISSN | 2053-4477 |
Electronic ISSN | 2053-4485 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 275-284 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.1 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1310895 |
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