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  title info:
    title: Victoria Welby
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Emily
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 70 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In 1880s Britain, Victoria Welby (1837-1912) began creating a rich, wide-ranging metaphysical system. At its heart lies Motion, 'the great fact, the supreme category.' Drawing extensively on archive materials, this Element offers the first study of Welby's metaphysics. It portrays her universe as a complex of motions, motions comprise material bodies, living beings and conscious minds. This dynamic universe, 'Motion,' underlies many other elements of her thought, including her views on idealism, panpsychism, change, space and anti-realism about time. This study shows that Welby's metaphysics are deeply embedded in the scientific-philosophical debates of her period, and variously draw on vortex theories of matter in physics, Victorian panpsychisms, fueled by debates over the continuity of mind in Darwinian evolution and new conceptions of time as the 'fourth dimension' of space. Victoria Welby significantly advances our understanding of Welby's philosophy, opening paths for future scholarship.
  table of contents: 1. Introducing Welby's metaphysics -- 2. Sketching Welby's life and works -- 3. Material bodies as motions -- 4. Minds as (immortal) motions -- 5. Idealism: motion as spirit -- 6. Panpsychism: 'mind-activity' and novelty in nature -- 7. Time -- 8. Motion-space -- 9. Final thoughts: motion and God -- References.
  note: Emily Thomas, Durham University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [65]-70).
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lady
      name part: Welby, Victoria
      name part: 1837-1912
  subject:
    topic: Women philosophers
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Semiotics
  classification: B105.W6 T46 2023
  classification: 110
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge elements
      part name: Elements on women in the history of philosophy
  identifier: 1009345869
  identifier: 9781009345866
  identifier: 9781009345897
  identifier: 9781009345880
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230126
    record change date: 20230811194604.3
    record identifier: in00004732975