Editing Anne Conway (philosopher) (section)

{{Short description|English philosopher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox philosopher
| name        = Anne Conway
| image       = Samuel van Hoogstraten - Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter - 66 - Mauritshuis.jpg
| caption     = ''Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter'' by [[Samuel van Hoogstraten]].  This painting is often thought to depict Anne Conway, though that attribution has been disputed.<ref name="PV">{{Cite web |title=Conway (1631-1679) |url=https://projectvox.org/conway-1631-1679/ |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=Project Vox |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_name  = Anne Finch
| birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1631|12|14}}
| birth_place = [[London]], England
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1679|2|23|1631|12|14}}
| death_place = [[Ragley Hall]], [[Warwickshire]], England
| resting_place = [[Holy Trinity Church, Arrow|Holy Trinity Church]], [[Arrow, Warwickshire]]<ref name="PV" />
| parents     = [[Heneage Finch (Speaker)|Sir Heneage Finch]]<br>Elizabeth Cradock 
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway]]|1651||reason=}}
| children    = Heneage Edward Conway
| relations   = [[John Finch (Ambassador)|John Finch]] (brother)
| signature   = 
|era={{plainlist|
* [[17th century in philosophy|17th Century]]
* [[Age of Enlightenment]]
}}|region={{tree list}}
* [[Western philosophy]]
** [[British philosophy]]
{{tree list/end}}|main_interests=[[Metaphysics]], [[Monism]]|occupation=Philosopher}}
'''Anne Conway''' (also known as '''Viscountess Conway'''; ''[[Married and maiden names|née]]'' '''Finch'''; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anne Conway : a woman philosopher|last=Hutton|first=Sarah|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521109819|location=Cambridge, UK|page=215|chapter=Death|oclc=909355784|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxjF4RJMWCMC&pg=PA215}}</ref>) was an English [[philosopher]] of the seventeenth century, whose work was in the tradition of the [[Cambridge Platonists]]. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of [[rationalist]] philosophy. Conway rejected Cartesian [[substance dualism]] and instead, argued that nature is constituted by one substance. Against the mechanists, she argued that matter is not passive, but has self-motion, perception, and life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Project Vox |title=Conway (1631-1679) |url=https://projectvox.org/conway-1631-1679/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Project Vox |language=en}}</ref>