[Revised entry by Sarah Hutton on August 4, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Lady Anne Conway (nee Anne Finch) was one of a tiny minority of seventeenth-century women who was able to pursue an interest in philosophy. She was associated with the Cambridge Platonists, particularly Henry More (1614 – 1687). Her only surviving treatise, Principia philosophiae antiquissimae ac recentissimae (The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy), was published posthumously and anonymously in 1690. This propounds a vitalist ontology of spirit, derived from the…
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