Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction
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 int
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Charles T. Wolfe
Materialism: A HistoricoPhilosophical Introduction
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Charles T. Wolfe
Materialism: A HistoricoPhilosophical Introduction
Charles T. Wolfe Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences Sarton Centre for History of Science Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
ISSN 2211-4548 ISSN 2211-4556 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Philosophy ISBN 978-3-319-24818-9 ISBN 978-3-319-24820-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24820-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015953229 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com)
Acknowledgments
The ideas and the material contained in this volume have been discussed, taken apart, and reassembled over the past 15-odd years in different venues including the Central European University, Budapest; the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (Versus Theory Laboratory); Goldsmiths College of the University of London; Nagoya City University; Rice University, Houston; and the Universities of Groningen, Liège, Mainz, Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Diderot, Poitiers, Stendhal-Grenoble 3, Sydney, Texas (El Paso), Toulouse-Le Mirail (in my undergraduate class on materialism), and Turin. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 contain thoroughly reworked membra disjecta from earlier publications: Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850, edited by Matthew Landers and Brian Muñoz (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012); Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind, edited by Helen Groth and Chris Danta (London: Continuum, 2014), and “Vital materialism” in the open access journal Philosophica (Ghent, 2013); their consent, including that of Taylor and Francis, is gratefully noted. An earlier version of Ch
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