Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Shepherd's Life and Context
Chapter 2 Causation
Chapter 3 Induction, Objects, and the Uniformity of Nature
Chapter 4 Causation, Sentience, and Life
Chapter 5 Sensing and Reasoning
Chapter 6 The External World
Chapter 7 Skepticism and Idealism
Chapter 8 Mind and Body
Chapter 9 Religion
Chapter 10 Vision
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography

About the Author

Deborah Boyle is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is the author of The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish (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 Journal of the History of Philosophy.