Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

Name: Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction
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Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

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This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. Prior to that, materialism was a pejorative term, used for wicked thinkers, as a near-synonym to atheist, Spinozist or the delightful Hobbist. 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. For materialism is often understood as a kind of philosophical facilitator of the sciences, and the authorwant to suggest that is not always the case. Materialism takes on different forms and guises in different historical, ideological and scientific contexts as well, and the author wants to do justice to that diversity. Figures discussed include Lucretius, Hobbes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Toland, Collins, La Mettrie, Diderot, dHolbach and Priestley; Bchner, Bergson, J.J.C. Smart and D.M. Armstrong.

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