In philosophy and metaphysics, materialism is a form of monism holding that matter is the fundamental substance of nature, so that all things, including mind and consciousness, arise from material interactions and depend on physical processes, including those of the human brain and nervous system. It contrasts with monistic idealism, which treats consciousness as fundamental, and is related to naturalism, the view that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe, and to physicalism, the view that everything that exists is ultimately physical. Alternative or opposing views include idealism, pluralism, dualism, solipsism, panpsychism and other forms of monism. Philosophers recorded in this atlas are grouped here when their work belongs to the materialist tradition.
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Source Anthony Collins (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Source Pierre Gassendi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Source Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Wikipedia)
Source Ludwig Büchner (Wikipedia)
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish
Source Nikolay Chernyshevsky (Wikipedia)
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In philosophy and metaphysics, materialism is a form of monism holding that matter is the fundamental substance of nature, so that all things, including mind and consciousness, arise from material interactions and depend on physical processes
In Tradition: Ancient Philosophy, Article text
In ancient Indian philosophy, materialism developed around 600 BC with the works of Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.
View the SourceEugen Dühring (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Eugen Dühring, Lead, philosophy of the actual
was a comprehensive, materialist system that challenged German idealism
Tradition Of: Eugen Dühring, Lead, philosophy of the actual
was a comprehensive, materialist system that challenged German idealism
View the SourceNikolay Chernyshevsky (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Biography, materialist views
Chernyshevsky developed revolutionary, democratic, and materialist views
Tradition Of: Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Biography, materialist views
Chernyshevsky developed revolutionary, democratic, and materialist views
View the SourceLudwig Büchner (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Ludwig Büchner, Lead, scientific materialism
one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism
Tradition Of: Ludwig Büchner, Lead, scientific materialism
one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism
View the SourceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish
Associated With: Margaret Cavendish, Materialism
An important strand in Cavendish's argument for materialism is her
Tradition Of: Margaret Cavendish, Materialism
An important strand in Cavendish's argument for materialism is her
View the SourceAnthony Collins (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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a wealthy English free-thinker, deist and materialist
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, LeadQuote, Associated With: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Lead
one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment
Pierre Gassendi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Associated With: François Bernier, Impact and Influence, Bernier's AbregeQuote, Associated With: François Bernier, Impact and Influence, Bernier's Abrege
which work highlights the atomist views and materialist tendencies of Gassendism
Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
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British empiricism Classical realism (international relations), Classical realism Corpuscularianism Egoism#Descriptive theories, Descriptive egoism Determinism English Renaissance Materialism Legal positivism Natural law Nominalism Social contract
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