Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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The book provides the different forms of materialism, particularly distinguished into claims about the material nature of the world and about the material nature of the mind, and then focus on materialist approaches to body and embodiment, selfhood, ethics, laws of nature, reductionism and determinism, and overall, its relationship to science.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-15
Mått155 x 235 x 9 mm
Vikt230 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Antal sidor134
Upplaga16001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319248189

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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Historiography of Materialism.- Chapter 2: Two Basic Forms of Materialism: As a Thesis about the Mind (Psychological Thesis) and as a Thesis about the World (Cosmological Thesis).- Chapter 3: Materialism and the Body.- Chapter 4: Ethics: Is Materialism an Immoralism? La Mettrie and Diderot.- Chapter 5: Can the Materialist be a Christian? Atheist and Mortalist Debates from Coward to Priestley.- Chapter 6: The Posterity of Enlightenment Materialism.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Materialism as an Anti-foundationalism.

"Wolfe successfully detects a historico-philosophical common trait connecting, rather than materialistic theories them-selves, the negative dismissals of materialism, from the first uses of the term in 17th century Cambridge Platonism to contempo-rary philosophy. ... opens new perspectives for both his-torical scholarship and philosophical reflection." (Paolo Pecere, Rivista di Filosofia, Vol. CVII (3), December, 2016) "This is a Modernist book, in the literary sense, for richness of ideas and characters, and for boldness of thought and expression. ... All this fullness of content and expression makes undoubtedly for an intriguing and instructive reading." (E. Pasini, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol. 5 (9), 2016)