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SUMMARY:What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World? - Emily Th
 omas (Durham University)
DTSTART:20171206T130000Z
DTEND:20171206T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Travel has a long and intimate history with philosophy. Travel
  also has a long and intimate relationship with fiction. Sometimes travel 
 fiction acts as ‘thought experiments’\, experiments that we can \nrun 
 through in our heads.  This talk explores a 1666 fiction travelogue\, Marg
 aret Cavendish’s Blazing World. In the novel\, a virtuous young lady \ni
 s kidnapped and travels by boat through the North Pole into a new world. I
  argue this is no mere piece of science fiction. Instead\, this \ntravelog
 ue acts as a distinctly philosophical thought experiment\, \nexploring the
  pros and cons of Baconian philosophy of science\, utopias\, \nand what it
  means to be real.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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