Materialism : A Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (Paperback)

Preface A Preliminary Disambiguation Part 1: An Outline of the History of Materialism 1. The Heart of Materialism 2. Materialist Thought in the Ancient World 3. The Triumphs of Materialism: The Mechanical Philosophy, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment 4. Materialism in the Nineteenth Century Part 2: The Evolution of Materialism into Physicalism 5. The Challenges to Materialism from post-Newtonian Physics 6. Physicalist Responses to the Problems of Materialism 7. The Heart of Physicalist Materialism 8. Physicalist Materialism in the Twenty-First Century. Bibliography Index