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Ancient Greek philosophers like Parmenides, Epicurus, and even Aristotle may be called materialists. Later on, the materialist tradition was represented by Thomas Hobbes and [Pierre Gassendi]?, in opposition to Rene Descartes' attempts to provide the [natural sciences]? with dualist foundations. |
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Ancient Greek philosophers like Parmenides, Epicurus, and even Aristotle may be called materialists. Later on, the materialist tradition was represented by Thomas Hobbes and [Pierre Gassendi]?, in opposition to Rene Descartes' attempts to provide the [natural sciences]? with dualist foundations. Later materialists were Denis Diderot and other French enlightenment thinkers, as well as [Ludwig Feuerbach]?. |
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Later materialists were Denis Diderot and other French enlightenment thinkers, as well as [Ludwig Feuerbach]?. Karl Marx and [Friedrich Engels]? provided materialism with a view on processes of historical change, influenced by Georg Hegel (ironically, an Idealist), called dialectical materialism. |
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Karl Marx and [Friedrich Engels]?, turning the idealist? dialectics of Georg Hegel "upside down", provided materialism with a view on processes of quantitative and qualitative change called dialectical materialism, and with a materialist account of the course of history, known as historical materialism. |
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In recent years, [Paul Churchland]? and [Patricia Churchland]? have advocated an extreme form of materialism, [eliminative materialism]?, which holds that mental phenomena simply do not exist at all--that talk of the mental is a reflection of a totally spurious "[folk psychology]?" that simple has no basis in fact, something like the way that folk science speaks of demon-caused illness. |
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In recent years, [Paul Churchland]? and [Patricia Churchland]? have advocated an extreme form of materialism, [eliminative materialism]?, which holds that mental phenomena simply do not exist at all--that talk of the mental is a reflection of a totally spurious "[folk psychology]?" that simply has no basis in fact, something like the way that folk science speaks of demon-caused illness. |
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