Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfe, Charles T. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:IX, 134 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24820-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.