LEADER 03591nam 22004935 450 001 9910255352403321 005 20200707023308.0 010 $a3-319-24820-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-24820-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000571718 035 $a(EBL)4313079 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-24820-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4313079 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000571718 100 $a20160106d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaterialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction /$fby Charles T. Wolfe 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (139 p.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4548 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-24818-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. Prior to that, ?materialism? was a pejorative term, used for wicked thinkers, as a near-synonym to ?atheist?, ?Spinozist? or the delightful ?Hobbist?. The book provides the different forms of materialism, particularly distinguished into claims about the material nature of the world and about the material nature of the mind, and then focus on materialist approaches to body and embodiment, selfhood, ethics, laws of nature, reductionism and determinism, and overall, its relationship to science. For materialism is often understood as a kind of philosophical facilitator of the sciences, and the author want to suggest that is not always the case. Materialism takes on different forms and guises in different historical, ideological and scientific contexts as well, and the author wants to do justice to that diversity. Figures discussed include Lucretius, Hobbes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Toland, Collins, La Mettrie, Diderot, d?Holbach and Priestley; Büchner, Bergson, J.J.C. Smart and D.M. Armstrong. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4548 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Man$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E28000 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Man. 676 $a146.3 700 $aWolfe$b Charles T$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01059952 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255352403321 996 $aMaterialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction$92509797 997 $aUNINA