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SUMMARY:Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science\, Francis Bacon\, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
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LOCATION:Belfield\, Ireland\, Dublin 4
DESCRIPTION:<p>Absrtact:</p>\n<p>Travel has a long and intimate history with philosophy. Travel also has a long and intimate relationship with fiction. Sometimes travel fiction acts as &lsquo\;thought experiments&rsquo\;\, experiments that we can run through in our heads.&nbsp\;</p>\nThis talk explores a 1666 fiction travelogue\, Margaret Cavendish&rsquo\;s Blazing World. In the novel\, a virtuous young lady is 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 travelogue acts as a distinctly philosophical thought experiment\, exploring the philosophy of science\, utopias\, and what it means to be real.
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